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The last of the ten newly announced features — hide slides to skip them!

Speaking of design conferences, the GitHub Design team recently held its second internal design conference, LGTM. You can watch talks from last year in the YouTube playlist, but a couple of this year’s talks have already been published as well — ​“Who is the We in the How Might We” on building trust and ​“Async/​Await” on close collaboration across non-overlapping time zones.

Day 9 brings new slick transition controls to customize the duration, easing curve, delay, etc.

Day 8. Improved language support in the Tone Dial.

Day 7 drop makes it possible to add all the slides into the deck with no need to choose right away.

Day 6 of new releases with an addition of rulers to Slides.

Miggi applies the new ​“Remove background” AI feature, a vector mask outlining the shape, a hidden ​“Show mask outlines” command (that I didn’t know about!), and a simple prototype to create a popping out head avatar.

A 7‑minute tutorial from Miggi on using the new Suggest Auto Layout and the AI features ​“Rewrite this,” ​“Replace content,” and ​“Rename layers.” 

Luis on the power of efficient aliasing when building typographic styles from primitives.

Minimize or hide the new UI to regain more screen real estate as you work.

Day 4: Click the right arrow to advance slides and play videos.

Day 3: Add template text styles in the Design mode instead of jumping between modes.

Day 2: Hit Shift‑D or toggle the right end of your toolbar to access your Design mode.

Figma Slides was launched two weeks ago, and now the team is shipping 10 improvements in 10 days. The first drop: view layers in the Design mode while in the grid view.

I designed my resume in Figma but didn’t know that the exported PDF isn’t compatible with ATS systems used by HRs. Good tip from Kris Puckett!

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.