Tweets

Jan Mraz with a short video showing a few Auto Layout tips. I keep forgetting that the canvas stacking option exists! No more weird hacks with rotating a container 180°.

Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer of Adobe, on a new superpower feature launched today in beta: “Powered by Firefly, our generative AI family of models, Photoshop now lets you summon new objects and augment creations layer by layer.” This is incredible, and I’m very bullish on Adobe’s vision for integrating generative AI into creator tools.

Jan Toman gathered the best practices for creating solid button components.

A solid list of new recommendations from the ADPList.

Great tip on using Figma object alignment shortcuts with MX Master mouse. I tried this mouse a few years ago and went back to Magic Mouse because of its amazing scrolling, but might give it another try just because of shortcuts!

Oğuz Yağız Kara shows how setting the color of the transparent gradient stop helps make it softer.

Socrates Charisis shared a plausible-sounding list of his Config predictions.

Designer Advocate Mal shows how to use the new memory control features: “To keep you informed of your memory usage, and any potential issues that may arise, we’ve adjusted our memory banners and alerts to live in the sidebar along with your pages and layers. We’ve also introduced a Memory use tool to surface memory consumed in your files by Page Content and Imported Components as well as the ability to show memory usage in the layers panel for all layers.”

Mal with a quick demo of Shaper, Magic Marker, and A Selector plugins.

Molly Hellmuth shares her favorite tips from the “Figma like the Pro’s” series — editing Auto Layout directly on the frame, using Constraints with Grids, deleting and healing vectors, using Auto Layout as an organizing tool, and copying links to specific pages, frames, or sections.

Now dropping your FigJam files into Notion pages works even better.

“When you have multiple vertices selected in vector edit mode, you can now type Mixed + [value] into the X or Y input box to add the same value to each vertex.”

A big update to FigJam — custom templates for your team, stamp your teammates’ faces to files and tag them with @mentions, emoji picker opens by typing a colon (“:”), custom color palettes (coming soon), UserTesting and Great Question integrations, Productboard widget, and new tunes! Also, explore new world-class teams’ templates and see a thread by Cai on the Figma design team’s rituals and templates they use in daily work.

Fascinating comments from Sho Kuwamoto, Figma’s VP of Product, on how plugins are implemented. Each plugin runs in a security sandbox — “We actually took a JavaScript VM, compiled it down to WebAssembly, and then we run that VM inside of the browser. So it’s a completely separate engine than the native JS engine. For security reasons, we don't want two scripts running inside that VM, because then the two scripts could potentially have access to each other. And we don't want to run two instances of this VM, for memory reasons.” 🤯

Great examples of automating grunt work with the Automator plugin.

Molly with 3 good tips. I have to admit that Slice is the dustiest tool in my toolbar.

Great list of Figma tips from the ADPList.

A simple but fun technique for creating cool animations with mirrored components.

Cool technique from Nitish Khagwal for creating animated liquid mesh gradients.

Fons Mans is back with a new tutorial on how to create a glowing glass effect in Figma.