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Brett offers to send an Apple Studio Display to someone who guesses the exact number of layers he used in an illustration. My guess is 999,999.

Yann-Edern Gillet from Linear shows how he organizes Figma files into a matrix consisting of Components, Inspirations, Playground, and Ready for Dev areas. Raphael Schaad originally recommended this approach in his Config talk From paper to pixels.

Figma will raise prices and change the billing experience next year, as explained by Tom Lowry. (My heart goes out to him for being the face of this change.) The cost of the Professional plan goes up by 33% from $15/​month or $144/​year to $20/​month or $192/​year. (Consider switching to the annual billing before the price goes up!) The seat on the Organization plan increased by 22% from $540 to $660 per year (the cost of the Dev Mode seat didn’t change), and on the Enterprise plan by 20% from $900 to $1,080.

To soften the blow, all paid seats now include FigJam and Slides. The Dev seat became available on the Professional plan for $15/​m or $144/​year (the cost of the Full seat before the price increase). Slides is now bundled with FigJam on the new Collab seat, available for $5/​month or $36/​year on the Professional plan and $60/​year on other plans.

The new admin experience finally provides an upfront control of how users get upgraded. Later next year, they plan to roll out Connected Projects announced at Config, so freelancers and agencies won’t need to pay twice for seats.

v0 from Vercel is a ​“generative chat interface with in-depth knowledge on modern web technologies. It can provide technical guidance while building on the web, generate UI with client-side functionality, write and execute code in JavaScript and Python, build diagrams explaining complex programming topics, and more”. v0 supported sketches and screenshots as a starting point for generation for quite some time, but now paid users can also import designs from Figma.

Marina Budarina with another dope gadget illustration made entirely in Figma.

Molly Hellmuth with a tip on using the ​“Ignore auto layout” feature to add a scrollbar to the menu, among other things. It’s one of my favorite features, making it easy to preserve Auto Layout while making designs more realistic and interesting.

A tutorial from James on creating beautiful background patterns and effects. I haven’t tried the vga blurrific.exe plugin he recommends, but it looks really cool.

David Hill walks layer-by-layer through his process of designing a sick illustration for the lil bro coffee from Terminal.

A new update to Slides lets you bring slides from Figma into a deck with one click.

The layers panel finally supports lots of nested frames or long layer names with horizontal scrolling.

Meng To is working on a free plugin (requiring API keys) for turning designs into code using Claude.

Cool illustration made entirely in Figma by Marina Budarina.

Damiano Redemagni shows how easy it is to build a Figma plugin with Cursor from start to finish.

A new libraries modal optimized for adding and browsing relevant libraries. Highlights of this redesign include a new recommended tab and overall improvements to performance and navigation.

Choose a color, style (solid, dotted, or wavy), thickness, and offset of your underlines.

Vijay shows how to create a cool flower illustration in a few simple steps.

Select multiple layers in Figma Slides and apply edits to them all at once.

Is this new? Very cool.

A few small improvements to variables, the biggest being the ability to copy and paste (but not move) variables across collections and show their values on hover. Other updates improve the authoring experience by adding new variables under selection, tabbing through fields, and resizing columns. See a video demo from Chad Bergman or read the release notes.

These improvements are very welcome, but after a year of using variables, I still rely on a mix of random plugins for most organizational tasks. My not-so-short wishlist for Config 2025: moving variables between collections and libraries, seeing where they’re used, replacing one variable with another, detecting unused variables, reviewing deleted variables still in use, and suggesting variables based on the value. Alright, 2026 might be a better target.

A fully redesigned eyedropper for UI3 now supports color variables and styles! Rotate between color formats with the Tab key — previously, that could have been changed only in the color panel. Switch between picking the raw color value or a variable/​style with a Shift key or creating and applying a new color variable/​style by using the shortcut Command-Shift. See an in-depth demo from Ana.

This update is near and dear to my heart, as I talked about color formats and working around a lack of support for styles in an eyedropper back in 2023 at Config. Love that both features are now so straightforward to use!