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MDS with a pro tip on using the Measurement tool: ​“Use Shift+M to measure spacing as you adjust. This makes dialing in your line height and Auto Layout container sizes much easier.”

Somehow, I didn’t realize how powerful the pattern fill is in Figma. Another reminder from Miggi that you can select any source you want to be a pattern, and it will live update. You can control the pattern type, scaling, spacing, and orientation.

The Shape Builder is a newer vector tool added to Figma Design from Draw. First, Miggi shows how to use it to easily cut up a shape with a path. Next, he makes a yin-yang symbol with it in just a few seconds.

Lauri Lännenmäki shows yet another use case for Make — after designing a complicated component with different properties and states, make an interactive playground to give to the developers. Great opportunity to test edge cases and experiment with interactions.

Motion designer Thibaut Crépelle reimagined the launch of the iconic iMac G3 with an animated video and an interactive page made in Framer. Really fun passion project executed with high quality and attention to detail.

My first Mac was a Mini G4 introduced in 2005, but soon after, I also got an iMac G3 because of its cool look. Watching this reel made me want to get another one again.

Vijay Verma goes from sketch to a cool illustration of koi fish made in Figma Draw in 6 steps.

Beautiful illustration that took Ajnas 29 hours and 1,100 layers to make in Figma.

Marijana Pavlinić with a gorgeous recreation of a Vatican stamp. Amazing what new brushes made possible.

Tom Johnson lists 10 issues that make grids hard to use in Figma.

If you missed a 2‑hour-long video Vibin’ on Inflight shared in #221, Ridd shared a short snippet demonstrating an advanced technique of turning similar objects into instances of a component by using Select Layers, Master, and Destroyer plugins.

Ajnas made a wildly realistic illustration inspired by the new F1 movie.

Love how clean it looks compared to emojis. You can choose the icon in Apple’s SF Symbols app, but keep in mind that it will render correctly only on Macs.

Loredana Crisan joined Figma as the Chief Design Officer. Before Figma, she had been at Meta for almost 10 years, lately leading AI Products.

A nice roundup of icon sets designed in the new liquid glass style.

The most recent update to Adobe Illustrator broke copying vectors to paste into Figma. Rogie shows how to fix this.

Updates to AI-powered image editing features across all products — remove background or boost resolution for up to 25 images at once, and choose between Gemini 2.0 Flash and GPT Image 1 to get results that best match your prompt.

Figma turned 13 on August 13th! To celebrate, Rogie streamed the live process of drawing a birthday card with portraits of Dylan and Evan — what a long way from the early sketches!

Tom Johnson suggests we need to go from Canvas → Make to Make → Canvas → Make, so we could prompt the rough parts of the app and then use those scrappy elements to design all of the different canvases for the flow or feature, then feed those back into the Make workflow.

Rogie walks through quality of life updates for Figma Draw’s variable width stroke feature. Now you can select a width point and double click to enter a numerical value; after selecting a width point, you can go to the next one with Tab and the previous one with Shift-Tab shortcuts; with a custom width profile, you can see a preview of the shape or edit the width profile from the menu; hold Control to disable Snap to Pixel for more precision; select two width points by holding Shift and resize both together. 

Miggi shows a new Figma Draw feature. You can now take any flattened vector path and offset it to expand or retract it.