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Do you know how to select layers in Figma?
Gleb Sabirzyanov shares all known ways to select layers. There are more than you might have expected!
Do you know how to select layers in Figma? 🤔 Sounds extremely basic, right? Let’s break it down!
— Gleb Sabirzyanov (@gleb_sexy) January 22, 2020
Here is every single way to select objects in @figmadesign! #FigmaTip #Thread pic.twitter.com/A7OMXuiH6g
Sneak peek at updates to Text and Type Details panels
Coming in the next release. So happy to see resizing moved to the top level!
We are changing it. This is what the text property panel will look like in the next release :–) pic.twitter.com/H0XhAU39gB
— Rasmus Andersson (@rsms) January 15, 2020
Cameron Moll: Reminder to regularly backup your .fig files
Luckily, the support team was able to help Cameron locate his files under a different account, but this is a good reminder to backup your cloud files. (Even more so if the account is managed by someone else and your access can be revoked.)
Because your Figma files are stored entirely by the app, consider doing regular backups as .fig in the event you open the app one day and files are missing, nowhere to be found. (This is my story. And while the @figmadesign support team have been very responsive, still no files.)
— Cameron Moll (@cameronmoll) January 16, 2020
Steve Schoger: Strokes don’t export properly when you have mixed caps and joins
Good to know, I faced this issue a few times before and chose to outline strokes, but this is not always possible or ideal.
Figure this Figma exporting issue out! It doesn't export properly when you have mixed caps and joins.
— Steve Schoger (@steveschoger) January 14, 2020
cc/ @figmadesign https://t.co/gQWsaluzzX pic.twitter.com/zP3pE770HD
An interesting discussion about working in private when you’re not ready to share results with the team
A common approach seems to be using a separate private project for experimenting and then moving finished work to a public place. Figma designers use this approach internally as well.
In all seriousness there is a place for collaboration and there is a place for heads down work. I hope Figma can support this.
— Tuhin Kumar (@tuhin) January 17, 2020
At minimum hiding cursors would be a start (does that exist already?).
cc @nlevin @rsms
Why the items in an Auto Layout frame go backward
Figma’s Director of Product wrote a detailed explanation of why layers are ordered backward inside an Auto Layout frame. This thread is a good illustration of how many factors have to be considered even for a seemingly simple design choice.
A lot of people have been asking why the items in an Auto Layout frame go backwards in @figmadesign.
— Sho Kuwamoto (@skuwamoto) December 10, 2019
I usually hesitate to answer seemingly simple questions that end up requiring super long answers, but... here we go!
1/n
Figma renders the letter X as a multiplication sign
Nice observation. Figma’s team has great attention to detail.
So @figmadesign renders the letter X as a multiplication sign in the layer list when it's surrounded by numbers 👌 pic.twitter.com/GAZNpjkFFP
— Jerry Jäppinen (@jerryjappinen) December 18, 2019