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Naming toggle switch tokens

Continuing with taxonomy, check out this discussion about naming tokens for a toggle switch UI element. Don’t miss the insight from Ryhan on how Figma approached this in their UI2 design system.

Designing responsive card grids

Zander is showing how to quickly create a responsive card grid.

Min/max sizing

Molly Hellmuth shares five updates you can make with the new min/​max sizing and auto layout wrap that will make a big difference in your designs. Tip #5 on having text grow in both directions is my favorite!

Games made in Figma

Great roundup of 7 games made with variables and advanced prototyping. Quite impressive to see how far designers have pushed new features just a week after they were announced.

Figoos

Vijay is building a game using variables with new advanced prototyping features and explains how it works along the way.

Figma needs more flowers

Anthony DiSpezio shares a community file and a quick tutorial for creating a cute blooming flower effect.

Dashboard for customizing avatar

Vijay Verma won’t miss a chance to build something fun with a new Figma feature. Here, he made a fun personalized avatars constructor using different combinations of components and variables.

Variables and Design Tokens

Good thread by W3C’s Design Tokens Community Group on Figma variables, and how they differ from the spec. Great to see that Figma is actively collaborating with the community group on adding modes to the specification, and already built sample plugins for importing and exporting DTCG-compliant JSON files. (BTW, if you ever wondered what the variables icon was based on — now you know.)

How to get started with color variables

Luis shares good tips and thoughts on using, naming, and organizing color variables, as well as setting up modes for themes. Additionally, he summed up all of the above into a Variable starter kit on the Figma Community.

Leading through uncertainty: A design-led company

Great summary of Brian Chesky’s conversation with Dylan Field on approaching everything at Airbnb through a design lens.

Config brand

Damien Correll, Creative Director at Figma, shares some thoughts on the Config brand. Creating an identity for a brief event is an interesting challenge, and Figma’s brand studio does an incredible job every time. The pictograms were my favorite part — they are in lively motion on the screen but feel monumental IRL as wooden cutouts or a statue at Moscone, almost at odds with the temporal nature of the brand.

Rich text component descriptions

Small improvement, but I know it will make many people excited!

A change to the core text layout engine

Lauren Budorick explains how the new text truncation works: ​“Now, whenever we can, we figure out at line layout time whether the next line will fit. If it won’t, we’ll override our line breaking engine to say that, if this is the last line before truncation, every glyph pair is breakable.” She also points to where the new ​“Max lines” truncation feature can be found.

Genius by Diagram

The first-ever demo of a new plugin by Diagram. Can’t wait for it to become a part of the editor!

Stopwatch

And here is a fully functional stopwatch demo as well.

Calculator

Miguel Solorio already built a simple, functioning calculator with advanced prototypes and variables.

DVD Video animation

One of the fun test files that Figma engineer Willy Wu used for testing advanced prototyping. ​“With stuff like this, we’re entering Turing-complete territory… it’s only a matter of time before someone gets Doom running in Figma!”

Flappy Bird

A fully working version of Flappy Bird made with physics-based movement, pseudo-randomized pipe placement, and scoring. Made by Dave Williames using 46 variables.

How Spotify and Encore use the new variables

“159 variables across 13 modes, totaling 1,843 values” — cheers to the Figma API!

Switch designs from light to dark mode

Zander Whitehurst shows how to switch color modes with new variables, supafast!

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