Resources

If introducing Genius wasn’t enough, here is another upcoming AI tool for creating editable UI designs from a simple text description. As Vitaly Friedman rightfully put, ​“It’s about time to get used to websites looking exactly the same everywhere.”

If you ever wonder what Designer Advocates do at Figma, Clara Ujiie just gave a mini-presentation to Figma interns answering this question. While community engagement is the most visible part of advocates’ jobs, they also spend a lot of time on customer education and learning how customers and the community use Figma.

A new project by Vijay Verma: ​“Figbruary is a fictional month created by combining Figma + February where you can experiment and design things daily to push the limits. For every 24 hour day within this 672 hour timespan of the month, we have prepared a prompt with instructions for you to design and create.”

See the past submissions on Twitter, like this weather icon made with only primitive shapes.

Mix and match 3D illustrations and icons and drop them into your Figma file.

Fons Mans shared a project quote template that he used in 2022.

An adventure game made with Figma prototyping tools.

Framer published a selection of the best Framer websites made last year. Lots of great designs to get inspired from, but I didn’t expect to see such a heavy dose of personal websites of designers and agencies.

Just in time for Hanukkah!

A ready-to-use web UI kit with predefined components and a few page libraries by Vijay Verma.

From December 5th to 16th, Figma Designer Advocates add a new tip to this community file every day. So far they’ve covered Auto Layout shortcuts, color override preservation in icons, presenting with the Figma app, and a few oldies but goodies.

In addition to Joey’s thumbnail kit, check out this template from the design team at Doist. It’s specific to their products, but can be easily customized or used as an inspiration.

Joey Banks published an update to his file thumbnail UI kit with dozens of custom combinations, and now even easier to edit with component properties.

The folks at Flowbite open-sourced their collection of Figma components based on the Flowbite Design System featuring variants, Auto Layout, dark mode, examples, style guide, and seamless integration with Tailwind CSS.

Great team activity from Miggie — build a gingerbread house using the provided virtual gingerbread cookies and sweets. In the end, you can even make your own card.

Figma prepared a collection of templates and fun team activities to celebrate the holidays.

Framer and Fons Mans teamed up to create an advent calendar of design gifts, from heavily discounted apps to free icon & wallpaper packs. So far they’ve offered big discounts on Sketch and Campsite subscriptions, as well as a free typeface from The Pangram Pangram Foundry.

Vijay’s roundup of special effects achieved with Rogie’s new Noise & Texture plugin. Don’t miss his Twitter thread with some context and details.

A portfolio of a talented designer and illustrator, with all artworks made in Figma.

Affinity announced Version 2 of the Designer, Photo, and Publisher apps on November 9th. Their suite provides the strongest alternative to Adobe Creative Cloud, and now is an important time to support indie alternatives. Affinity offers the Universal License on all platforms with just one payment (currently 40% off!) and without subscriptions.

I’m not a heavy user by any means, but bought the previous version of Designer back in 2016 and been using it occasionally. The app was regularly updated all these years, so I just ordered the Universal License and set up the new apps. Hope after climbing the learning curve they’ll become a great addition to my Figma-centric workflow.

Beautiful interactive animation by Figmatelier pushes the limits of Figma. Don’t miss the community file as well.