Resources

“Push notifications have been around for over 10 years and come in all shapes and sizes on different devices and operating systems. This is your source of truth for the latest and greatest push anatomy.” See also an accompanying blog post, Design and Anatomy of a Push Notification 2022.

A curated list of automations for Jordan Singer’s popular Automator plugin.

Four templates that may help ease the pain of the design handoff process — a table of contents, detailed specs, mockups, and flow templates.

The biggest Material You UI kit with more than 1,000 components, built to perfectly replicate the real-world, official Material Design Components library for Android 12.

A large shipment of small updates to Figma and FigJam. The community file is the best way to learn about all of them with demos and examples, but see also the blog post with a list of updates.

Jan Toman prepared a small file covers kit with several styles and unique waves-like artwork for each color. He also shared a few principles behind them.

Fons Mans published a Community file with one of his visual experiments using gradients and shadows to get a retro 3D effect.

Framer announced the new app for designing and publishing websites without writing any code. Like everything they do, it’s powerful and well-made. It’s even integrated with Figma through their Framer Copy Paste plugin! Excited to see more high-quality tools in this field.

Luis explores a few approaches to layer naming based on a level of fidelity, team conventions, and who is responsible for this work.

Cool walking animation by Bruno, Community Advocate for Figma in Portugal.

Great example of a rich Figma prototype made with lots of cool interactions. See also a video on Alvish’s Twitter.

The swag store is officially live! Every other day I see people hunting for Figma swag on Twitter, and it tells a lot about the product if happy users are willing to buy and wear its merch. Both the website and all items are gorgeous, and all profits are being donated to charity 👏

A new plugin by Gleb for turning vector lines into pixel art.

Great comparison of different techniques for customizing components by Ana Boyer. Playing with the examples instead of just reading about them makes all the difference.

Generic MIDI player by Filipe Soares.

Joey Banks created a thumbnail template for files in Figma. ​“Easily add teammates’ avatars, custom fields and statuses, and instance swap between templates or themes.”

“You can use this calendar for UI elements, planning tables, print designs. It includes all the months as variants, so it’s easy to switch between months.”

Slides from Marshall Bock’s internal presentation at Google with Figma tips and tricks. I also highly recommend podcast Design Details which Marshall co-hosts with Brian Lovin.

“We created this UI Kit to help you design and build mobile screens in dark mode. Components and layers were created with versatility in mind and can be edited to fit your needs. All the colors meet WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) when used in the recommended way.”

Fantastic morphing animation made entirely in Figma by Daniel Tan.