Resources

Ando is out of beta. It’s a plugin using Stable Diffusion to generate AI art right in Figma. If you didn’t have a chance to play with Stable Diffusion yet, check out DreamStudio Beta from its makers.

A collection of fully customizable iPhone mockups, including Plus, Pro, and Pro Max models.

Fons Mans recreates the new iPhone 14 Pro wallpapers in Figma.

Speaking of the font metrics, I’ve just bought the Martian Grotesk font family for the upcoming redesign of my personal website. Its author Roman Shamin put a great deal of work into making this font a fantastic choice for web and digital design — equal vertical metrics for perfect positioning inside a bounding box, glyph height sticking to the pixel grid at common sizes, case sensitivity, and a variable version. It’s one of the most thoughtfully made fonts for the UI work and currently it’s 60% off until September 4th. (See also his free open-source font Martian Mono.)

I’ve been using Alfred since v1, but lately been trying Raycast as another fast and extendable launcher. So far it feels more modern and polished. Extensions make it really powerful and there are tons of them made by the community. Figma File Search lets you quickly find and navigate to Figma files in your team account.

Lingo provides an easy-to-use visual hub for your Figma assets.

Sprig makes it easy to conduct high-impact research with your users throughout the entire product lifecycle. You can easily run concept and usability testing on one or many Figma prototypes within the same Sprig study.

A great set with over 2,150 free and open-source icons.

USWDS is an open-source design system for building accessible and mobile-friendly government websites. There is no official support for Figma yet, so Patrick Morgan added the color library to the Community and explained why he settled on this design system for his projects.

A good-looking and totally free UI kit.

That’s a really smart idea — browse a library of pre-made UI elements and copy-paste them straight to Figma. Categories make browsing the collections very easy. May be valuable for rapid prototyping at the early stages or for exploring ideas. (Keep in mind it didn’t work for me in Safari, but works perfectly in Chrome.)

Eagle is a fantastic app for taking screenshots and organizing visual references. I was a heavy user of the Ember app a decade ago, but it was discontinued in 2015 and I’ve been looking for a replacement until finding Eagle a couple of years ago. It’s available for multiple platforms as a one-time purchase. A must-have for every designer! (An easter egg: you may find me somewhere on their home page!)

A collection of 500+ free icons across 3 styles by Flowbase.

A cool collection of free stickers for Figma and FigJam.

A great-looking game made entirely in Figma. The creativity of this community never stops surprising me.

Cool kit with thousands of shapes, models, and components for creating math and geometry content. See also another file with their guidelines and a quick tutorial on using the kit.

My first cool thing is a gorgeous editor and knowledge base for Mac and iOS. If you’re familiar with Notion, you’ll feel right at home. I use Craft to prepare Figmalion issues, take notes during meetings, plan family trips, and save and organize highlights from my reading. It’s a native app, so saving things by dragging or using a sharing extension is effortless on all platforms.

This is the craziest thing I’ve seen built in Figma (here is a quick preview, but go try it): ​“With friends & coworkers visit a petting zoo, play hide and seek, race go karts, and more! Interactive Figmaland is a multiplayer interactive world built with FigJam widgets. Objects will animate when a character gets close to them.”

The Figma API documentation website was completely redesigned and updated. Time to start building!

Joey Banks introduced the new version of his iOS 16 UI Kit just a few days after WWDC 2022. Joey’s kits are fantastic resources for making iOS apps and learning about the organization of a large system. This year, he is also offering a paid version that includes exactly the same files, but by purchasing you’ll support the project and receive library updates and video walkthroughs.