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Ana Boyer helps design system teams ensure designers get library updates not by copying main components into their working files.

Artiom Dashinsky asked a lawyer to check how Figma AI affects his work’s copyright. The good part: ​“You own the copyright for your work. You also own the copyright for the work Figma generates for you with AI.” The bad part: ​“Let’s say you create a mood board with screenshots of others’ designs. You don’t own the copyright for these designs, but now you’ve allowed Figma to train their AI on it. Now you’ve violated the copyright of the original owner.”

A great example of Figma’s attention to detail in this post from Ryhan on the Dev Mode toggle in the toolbar: ​“Our current logic accomplishes this by waiting for mouseout — so if you’re hovering over the control […], the width will stay constant for a split second longer — just long enough for you to click again to toggle back — without being perceived as ​“slow”. However, if you mouse out immediately, or do this via shortcut, the animation is sped up to be slightly faster, since there is no action to cancel.”

Building a Figma plugin with a server side and API calls in 2 hours using Claude AI.

Rogie King has another example of roughening up icons for wireframes.

Luis brings up an interesting point about optical spacing and bounding boxes of icons. That’s been bugging me as well, but I don’t think there is a universal solution besides creating two sets of icons for vertical and horizontal alignment, which feels like an overkill for most systems.

Jordan Singer shared the original pitch deck and a video recording for Diagram (acquired by Figma last year).

Vijay Verma shows how ​“Figma Slides” illustrations were made.

Multiple people noted that rulers are too detached from the content in UI3. ​“Scoping” rulers to frames makes common use cases easier, but I’d miss the ability to use them directly on the canvas.

A few ways to see the pixel values on Auto Layout frames by KC Oh.

Miggi reminds us that property labels in Figma UI can now be turned on or off.

Robert Bye highlights some details of the new desktop app shipped with UI3. I love the new calm tab icons!

Matt recorded his first reaction walkthrough of the new UI3 and Make Designs AI features. Regarding UI3, I’d also love an option to hide a floating toolbar and ​“Ready for dev” actions. (There are no developers in my personal workspace, and even at work we have Figma projects with only marketing assets that would never require development.)

I did not expect to see Adobe as an example of best practices: ​“Adobe has seen massive outcry from its customers, when their old T&Cs suggested Adobe *could* train on customer work. This is why I’m baffled Figma enrolls paying customers (if they are non-enterprise) to GenAI training, by default.”

The next day, Dylan Field posted a thread stating that ​“the accusations around data training in this tweet are false” and reiterating that Make Designs ​“uses off-the-shelf LLMs, combined with design systems we commissioned to be used by these models.”

The Make Designs feature was disabled until the team completes a full QA pass on the underlying design system.

Last Monday, Andy Allen from Not Boring Software asked Figma AI to design a ​“not boring weather app.” The generated result was almost a copy of Apple’s Weather app on iOS, even when using a different prompt. CTO of Figma Kris Rasmussen commented that they’re investigating and clarified that ​“there was no training as part of this feature or any of our generative features,” so the similarities are a function of the 3rd-party models and commissioned design systems.

Mihika shares the inspiration and the process of making one of the coolest Slides features.

Mihika Kapoor shares the story of taking Flides from the Maker Week pitch to reality. That team photo in the end is a poor gold. Also, see Keeyen’s demo tutorial from a year ago with an early prototype, where he pretends to be Zander Supafast.

“You’ll now find Figma Slides templates featured on our homepage, a new much-improved navigation, and simpler category pages.” Oh, and there is also a new homepage!

Jackie Chui, a Product Designer at Figma, shares a few more quality-of-life improvements to Auto Layout that the new Suggest Auto Layout feature might have outshined.

Software Engineer Shirley Miao explains how the new ​“auto auto layout“ was built.