Resources

Cool design explorations of isometric icons inspired by VisionOS.

Figarc is a design system for floor plans. You start by setting up a foundation with walls and load-bearing pillars, then add doors and windows from 100+ fixtures. After aligning early-stage structural elements like water pipes and electrical cords with wall layouts, you can drag-and-drop 150+ furniture pieces with component overrides to unlock a plethora of options. Love so much about this project!

Danial Siddiki started building a UI kit by replicating Vision Pro interfaces made by Apple.

Beautiful work by Dylan de Heer: ​“a quartet of neumorphic buttons that are all about that subtle, mechanical depth — a touch of the future, crafted with a bit of that everyday rugged charm.”

High-quality maps in different styles and locations. From the streets of Oslo to a bird’s eye view of San Francisco — all in handcrafted vector and with examples of how they can be put to good use.

A new version of a beautiful free icon set from Noah Jacobus. Now comes in 3 flavors — Filled, Hollow, and Duo. All 300 glyphs from v2 were redrawn for consistency and 300 brand new icons were added.

Incredible photorealistic illustrations made entirely in Figma by Anatole.

An absolutely massive collection of over 1,800 public company logos turned into handcrafted icons by T. Costa from Fey: ​“Finding quality logos for public companies can be a hassle. Some attempt to claim ownership of third-party assets, while others charge you for access. So we’ve decided to open-source our entire vector library. For free.” See also a behind-the-scene look at technical details from their CTO.

Multiple icon collections by Zlatko Najdenovski, including a few free ones. Most of them are very expressive and unique.

Jenny Wen ​“templatized” some of the frameworks she’s been using over and over again in her role as a design manager and pillar lead of FigJam. There are 11 FigJam (no surprise!) templates for strategy, managing, and meetings.

“All the essential resources for setting up the design system.” A solid guide and a collection of interviews with design systems practitioners.

Vijay shared his collection of loader prototypes in the community.

A free and ever-expanding design system and UI kit for Figma from Lemon Squeezy. Fantastic resource from a talented team!

FigWig — a Figma team contributions tracker I mentioned in #140 — is now available in the App Store for iPhones.

CVS Health Inclusive Design team: ​“Accessibility annotations help capture design intent that cannot be conveyed through visual design alone. This can help prevent many accessibility issues earlier and create more usable digital experiences. After 2 years of testing with over 65 design teams at CVS Health, we’re releasing our Web Accessibility Annotation Kit to the public.”

“Transform your plugin ideas into reality in just minutes! Featuring official Figma color variables, dynamic interactive components, ready-to-use promo material presets, and a live preview across 3 stunning themes.”

A new FigJam icebreaker for the season — making snow friends from a set of accessories and snowball sizes.

A good-looking set of icons made for Figma and Framer, with a unique business model — pay once and request custom icons in the future with no additional charge. A free set consists of 100 high-quality icons.

Fons Mans partnered with Framer again this year for a new advent calendar of design gifts — everything from heavily discounted apps to free icon and wallpaper packs.

The final week of LBU includes a number of quality-of-life updates.

The design editor. #22: On-canvas previews for the font picker (yay!) #23: Press Tab on a misspelled word to autocorrect the typo. #24: SF Symbols icons now render correctly. #25 and #26: Text boxes and containers (like frames and sections) can be used as snap targets. #27: Select text from the canvas in View-only mode. #28: A bug fix for the text shifts caused by changes in colors or text properties. #29: Nested component properties are visible in the playground and Dev Mode.

Collaboration tools. #30: Media in comments (yay!) #31: The full gamut of emoji reactions in comments. #32: Nominate someone to spotlight. #33: Mind maps in FigJam (whoa!) #34: Mobile app makes browsing files easier. #35 and #36: Importing Asana and Jira projects.

Prototyping experience. #37: A fix to ​“mouse enter” and ​“mouse leave” interactions. #38: The prototyping modal now pops up right when you need it. #39: Temporarily hide the edit modal by holding Shift. #40: Making it clear when you have multiple actions tucked into an interaction. #41: The inline preview can follow the current frame. #42: Sticky scrolling improvements (see more on this below).