Resources

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.

Luis has been working on his version of the kit for over a month, and now it’s finally available in the Figma community. Even includes a new Sidebar component that was released last Friday!

After the Figma library recommended by shadcn wasn’t updated in 2 years, I love all the new resources popping up! Yauheni created a free and open-source Figma library for the shadcn/​ui component and documented his process on X.

James McDonald shared a design file of his recent project with a few cool effects.

What a brilliant idea. If you have completed design projects but never can find time to prepare case studies or publish work on social media, this service does this for you. You share a Figma file, and they refine, rework, and turn your project into ready-to-share assets for a one-time fee.

A collection of UX methods, templates, and activities for product ideation, mapping, and concept testing sessions. See also the entire catalog of resources on the website.