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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.)

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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!

I missed Vijay’s Figma recreations! A great illustration of the Sony Walkman, full of little details and textures. ​“Most of the shapes are created using primitive shapes with shadows and blend modes.”

The good thing about evergreen tips is, well, that they do not get old — I keep forgetting about this one! Right-click while holding the Control key to see a list of objects below your cursor.

Christine Vallaure explains how to use boolean variables and modes to reduce the number of necessary components. One important caveat: ​“I would always recommend adding a documentation sheet to avoid confusion as per default, only the first mode will be displayed, and in development mode, hidden elements are not highlighted.” See also a second thread on using variables to trigger actions in prototypes once a specific threshold is reached.

Finally a solid improvement to detaching instances.

Some great recommendations for quality unitasker plugins in Fons Mans’s comments.