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Plugins are now available in Figma Slides, and three dozen plugins have already been updated to support it.

Cool ​“Figma Studio Deck” illustration by Bedirhan Doğan.

Kinda wild how big of a deal last week’s Aspect Ratio release has become. While it’s one of the ​“finally!” releases, it’s also a good reminder that many features considered essential by product teams might actually wait quite a while. The Technology Brothers podcast covered the design community’s reaction and followed up with a discussion about Figma’s position in the market.

SVG exports will now correctly render background blur and both angular and diamond gradients.

Miggi shows a wildly creative application of boolean groups to vector networks.

James breaks down the design process behind creating a very cool hover interaction.

Continuing with surprising discoveries, Ridd noticed that interactive Figma prototypes could be embedded on Twitter/​X. In his own words: ​“If I’m looking for work on here… I’m going to have a pre-assembled reply tweet in Typefully that is a Figma embed of my best designs.”

Roman noticed that Figma natively converts OKLCH to HEX in the color field. I held my breath for a moment, but the conversion is inaccurate in files using the P3 color profile. For those curious about why this is a tricky problem to solve, I wrote an in-depth thread a while ago.

This obviously oversimplified attention-grabber made the rounds on design Twitter last week. Tools, processes, and skills are rapidly changing, but they complement each other. Instead of being line cooks focused on a single station, designers can now prepare an entire meal. However, if the ingredients are undercooked and the sauce is sloppy, that meal won’t be worth much.

Ideation, visual exploration, prototyping, and even building deserve the best tools for the job. Check out insightful takes on this from Noah Levin, Jordan Singer, Ridd, and Jess.

A new sidebar provides a large collection of diagramming shapes for engineers, along with quick access to recently used ones. Stroke color is now independent of fill color for shapes and sections, and connector labels are movable. Additionally, there is an updated color palette with more variety and consistency.

Nice to see stunning gradients made from scratch. The Figma file is now available for download.

You can always rely on Vijay to come up with the most creative ways to achieve special effects.

Blows my mind that this is made in Figma. See other cool experiments in Lee Black’s X profile.

Luis considers using opacity to decrease the volume of variables in the design system.

Fons Mans now uses Figma mostly to translate ideas onto the screen quickly, then switches to a tool that lets him build or create the final product or visual. Cameron Moll also follows this approach.

It works really well when the designer is involved in the implementation. Figma is a fantastic tool for quickly exploring different directions, but after reaching an alignment, it’s time to polish the final version of the product, not its image. I was frustrated by wasting time whenever I spent hours prototyping an elaborate but disposable interaction in Figma. Modern AI tools make this final iteration even more accessible to less technical folks. That said, in most organizations, designers still can’t touch code — either that will change, or the final polish will still be happening in Figma for quite some time.

Hot take: ​“Figma’s reliance on craftsmanship design culture feels vulnerable in a world moving toward automation & commodification.” I’m very curious to see what the big theme of Config 2025 will be.

Steve Lauda makes realistic illustrations entirely in Figma.

Yep! Type foundry explains why text in a dark UI often looks better when it’s slightly lightened. That’s one of the reasons why choosing variable fonts for new projects became one of my non-negotiables.

Tailwind CSS v4 beta includes a modernized P3 color palette. In this thread, Gleb Stroganov explores and compares the new OKLCH palette to the old one in v3. Tailwind’s adoption of P3 colors might be the tipping point in popularizing wide gamut colors on the web.

Prevent accidental removal of FigJam sections by locking the background of a section.