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Molly Hellmuth points to five places where her students often get stuck when building component sets in Figma. Matching names of the layers across variants, ordering and grouping properties, rearranging a component set for the most common variant, and breaking down large component sets are all great tips for getting unstuck.

Not sure when this was shipped, but this is a fast way to add emojis without opening a picker!

Mal shows hot updates to the new FigJam app for the iPad! It got the new native toolbar with a fresh look and feel. The app was optimized for Apple Pencil, and now it supports a responsive experience for multitasking.

Zander with just-in-time tips on creating a spatial UI for Vision Pro, supafast!

Did you know that you can use math inside color values in Figma? Really cool.

This tip (and the fact that this feature exists) made me irrationally happy. Thanks, Miggi!

Oğuz with a design tip on using Randomiser and Select Random Layers plugins to create a realistic image of the universe, like in his example. (The look resembles the cool new Reflect app landing he worked on recently.)

Landa Dong, Design Evangelist at Apple, recommends three must-watch videos from WWDC23 on designing for Apple Vision Pro — ​“Principles of spatial design”, ​“Design for spatial interfaces”, and ​“Design for spatial input”.

Jan Mraz with a short video showing a few Auto Layout tips. I keep forgetting that the canvas stacking option exists! No more weird hacks with rotating a container 180°.

Scott Belsky, Chief Product Officer of Adobe, on a new superpower feature launched today in beta: ​“Powered by Firefly, our generative AI family of models, Photoshop now lets you summon new objects and augment creations layer by layer.” This is incredible, and I’m very bullish on Adobe’s vision for integrating generative AI into creator tools.

Jan Toman gathered the best practices for creating solid button components.

A solid list of new recommendations from the ADPList.

Great tip on using Figma object alignment shortcuts with MX Master mouse. I tried this mouse a few years ago and went back to Magic Mouse because of its amazing scrolling, but might give it another try just because of shortcuts!

Oğuz Yağız Kara shows how setting the color of the transparent gradient stop helps make it softer.

Socrates Charisis shared a plausible-sounding list of his Config predictions.

Designer Advocate Mal shows how to use the new memory control features: ​“To keep you informed of your memory usage, and any potential issues that may arise, we’ve adjusted our memory banners and alerts to live in the sidebar along with your pages and layers. We’ve also introduced a Memory use tool to surface memory consumed in your files by Page Content and Imported Components as well as the ability to show memory usage in the layers panel for all layers.”

Mal with a quick demo of Shaper, Magic Marker, and A Selector plugins.

Molly Hellmuth shares her favorite tips from the ​“Figma like the Pro’s” series — editing Auto Layout directly on the frame, using Constraints with Grids, deleting and healing vectors, using Auto Layout as an organizing tool, and copying links to specific pages, frames, or sections.

Now dropping your FigJam files into Notion pages works even better.

“When you have multiple vertices selected in vector edit mode, you can now type Mixed + [value] into the X or Y input box to add the same value to each vertex.”