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I wonder what that button on Jordan’s micro keyboard does?

Soleio’s early investment into Figma

Soleio, an early designer at Facebook, is now one of the best-known designers turned investors. He shared a story on the Design MBA podcast about investing in Figma’s seed round in 2012, which became his highest-performing investment.

Dragging a field value

Never noticed that smart UI trick — excellent find from Anthony Hobday.

10 icons in 2 minutes challenge

Vijay challenged himself to create a small set of icons in 2 minutes — that’s just 12 seconds per icon! My takeaway is the importance of a good starting grid template (like this one from Font Awesome) that saves a ton of time and helps with consistency.

Interactive glowing card

Double Glitch is building on the powerful cursor-tracking technique I shared in the previous issue with a new tutorial for creating an interactive glowing card using a resource file he published in the community.

Using the new mind maps feature

Miggi, Mal, and Lauren’s first reactions to using the new mind maps feature in FigJam.

Mind Maps

As of last Thursday, mind maps are now live in FigJam!

Talking head

Vijay took his old experimental prototype (see issue #89) further by teaching a head to talk! Smart use of video as audio and variables.

Drawing file and doc icons

Huge Icons shows how to quickly create a few common icons using a standard grid.

Pentricles and hexricles

I didn’t know Cmd-clicking on the nodes of the shape releases the handles — a slick tip from Miggi!

Your most used shortcuts

Anthony DiSpezio shares instructions and a script to see your most used keyboard shortcuts in Figma. (Can be a great starting point for setting up an upcoming Creator Micro keyboard!) On my personal computer, the top 5 are undo, deep-select, zoom-in, measure-to-selection, and escape.

Figma × Work Louder

This week, Figma dropped a few hints on the upcoming physical product they’re introducing in collaboration with Work Louder on December 12th. Took me a moment to connect the dots, but Work Louder actually shared a sneak peek of this collab over a year ago (!). The product seems to be a Figma-branded version of their Creator Micro mini-keyboard, and I even shared how it can be used with FigJam back in issue #110. If you’re curious why they’re building this, see a new article Tap into joy with mechanical keyboards.

Creating Light Rays

A quick tutorial on creating light rays inspired by Rogie and Vijay with the Noise & Texture plugin.

Generating designs with AI

Teddy Ni, a co-founder of Magic Patterns backed by Y Combinator, shares an experiment: ​“We taught an AI some Figma designs of a documentation site. It can now generate similar sites using my own custom components on ANY topic I want, ALL within Figma I can also click on any frame and request updates 🤯”. (This reminds me of the feature in Visual Copilot that I wrote about in #136.)

Figma Wrapped 2023

If only Figma was doing a Wrapped report at the end of the year…

New Community pages layout

Nice update to the Community resource pages — a new image gallery, plugin videos, and picking a relevant category to better showcase what kind of resource it is and what it can do. Also, remixes can no longer be published as they were misleading when it came to the authorship of the original resources.

“Rogie button”

At this point, Vijay is just showing off. Awesome iteration on an earlier shaders experiment by Rogie.

Page dividers in Figma

A prototype of what page dividers in Figma might look like — considering this tweet’s engagement, it’s clearly something many of us would love to see!

Steve Jobs design crits

OMG! Figma window is streamed to GPT‑4 Vision, which then provides feedback on the fly narrated in the voice of Steve Jobs. Looking for a way to make this a part of our design crits.

Build It widget

Jordan Singer came up with another wild AI experiment — sketch or design anything in Figma or FigJam and turn it into a functional prototype with one click of a button. This demo is a great example — it built all the functionality correctly based just on a few text labels!

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