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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.

Rogie King introduces a new brush type in Figma Draw — scatter brushes. Make sure to read a fun behind-the-scenes look at how Rogie and Molly worked together to create and name the new brushes.

TBPN show hosts asked Dylan Field about organizational design in the age of AI and the importance of design.

My sympathy goes out to web developers looking for Glass’s CSS in Dev Mode.

Tired of liquid glass yet? Sebastiano Guerriero shares a step-by-step process of creating a different type of colored glass buttons.

Brett from DesignJoy breaks down the process of creating animated mockups using Midjourney and Figma.

This is a pretty nice QoL improvement. Want to see it in Figma Design too!

Jamayal makes cool atmospheric illustrations in Figma Draw.

“New in Dev Mode MCP Server: Annotations are included as design context. Generated code now benefits from both the structure of your design and your design intent.”

Ridd shares his new approach for vibe coding a side project. He treats ChatGPT as a CTO and Cursor as an engineer, with the CTO keeping all context about the project and breaking it down into chunks for an engineer to implement. I’ve been using a similar approach for a recent project with lots of moving parts and unknowns and it’s been working well. My only tip is to pick a smarter CTO in the form of an o3 model, maybe even employing Deep Research for the original plan.

Rasmus Andersson shared a few screenshots from the early days of Figma.