Resources

It’s time to sharpen your Figma skills! Figbruary is an entire month of Figma challenges organized by Vijay Verma. Every day, a new prompt from someone in the Figma community involves designing a UI, drawing an illustration, making a prototype, or creating an animation. Make something fun, share your work, and tag it with #figbruary or #figbruary2025.

Figma Community Forum got a big makeover in January. It’s a great place to ask questions or share your thoughts.

Marcus Farrell prepared a community resource with the new P3 color library used by Tailwind 4.

Rogie King made a lightweight, customizable web component library that uses Figma’s UI3 style. Great resource for making plugins!

FLOW library from Little Miss Robot is meant to be used for wireframing, but it can also easily be transformed into a small design system and evolve with your project simply by adjusting the variables.

In this deck, brand studio Smith & Diction explains their process and shares recent projects. You might be familiar with their brand identity for Perplexity, but my first exposure to their work was through local Philadelphia projects for Elixr Coffee, BOK Building, and The Rail Park. Ridd recently interviewed Mike and Chara, and it’s an inspiring conversation on craft, love of the game, brand strategy, and standing out in 2025 and beyond.

Free vector mockups of all models and colors of iPhone 16.

Luis Ouriach released a free shadcn/​ui Figma kit, including Tailwind colors, semantic light/​dark colors, typographic variables and styles, effects, components, example pages, and space utility variables. If you’re curious how it was made, Luis documented every step of the process, starting back in September of last year.

Nice hand-drawn brush strokes to use in your designs.

Brand designer Jamey Gannon made a commercial pitch deck template for early-stage founders raising VC capital. She built dozens of decks in her career for her own rounds or others and used this experience to design this template.

Joseph Mueller recreated the NYT Connections game as a fully playable Figma prototype. Took me a couple of attempts to solve, but I got it!

An open-source SDK to create Figma plugins without the hassle.

The annual UX Tools survey is one of the best ways to spot trends and new tools. Please take 5–10 minutes to complete it.

If you liked Molly’s advice and Q&A above, you’ll get a ton of value from her Design System Bootcamp. Enrollment ends on this Friday, November 8th. The end of the year is the best opportunity to turn any remaining educational budget into new skills. Figmalion readers get $100 off by using the coupon code FIGMALION100.

You can now lock sections in FigJam to prevent them from accidentally being moved.

A pretty wild Slides template: ​“The Infinite Scroll is a five-dimensional entity that weaves together the stories of the past, present, and future.”

Meta released official UI components and resources for designing immersive experiences.

Mihika Kapoor and Yuhki Yamashita gave a talk at the Lenny and Friends Summit on doing product reviews the right way. While I look forward to watching the full video when it’s available, the slides are pretty comprehensive. They point out that the main goal of product reviews is not making decisions but winning trust.

At a recent meetup, Developer Advocate Jake Albaugh shared the story of Figma’s SDS, a UI kit with a realistic code backing to help bridge the gap between design and development. As a reminder, the Simple Design System is available in the Libraries selector, Figma community, and GitHub.

Impressive lightsaber loader effect by Vijay.