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Mihika shares the inspiration and the process of making one of the coolest Slides features.

Mihika Kapoor shares the story of taking Flides from the Maker Week pitch to reality. That team photo in the end is a poor gold. Also, see Keeyen’s demo tutorial from a year ago with an early prototype, where he pretends to be Zander Supafast.

“You’ll now find Figma Slides templates featured on our homepage, a new much-improved navigation, and simpler category pages.” Oh, and there is also a new homepage!

Jackie Chui, a Product Designer at Figma, shares a few more quality-of-life improvements to Auto Layout that the new Suggest Auto Layout feature might have outshined.

Software Engineer Shirley Miao explains how the new ​“auto auto layout“ was built.

Software Engineer Jediah Katz shares 5 of his favorite tips for making the most of the ​“Make prototype” AI tool: name your layers, properly group layers, select only interactive elements instead of entire screens, review the results, and undo if unhappy.

Great observation from Nate Baldwin on the new ​“Make designs.”

Design Engineer Vincent van der Meulen explains how it was built.

Designer Marco Cornacchia explains how it works. See also his follow-up thread on why the new Asset Search marks the end of the ​“design graveyard.”

Arthur Objartel offers solutions to a few problems he discovered in the new UI. There are good discussions in the comments, and of course, I couldn’t walk past a suggestion of better OKLCH format support!

Gavin McFarland on four things he misses in the UI3 from the old version — rulers, scrollbars, distinct areas for the main controls, and easier-to-read notifications.

Rasmus Andersson was one of the early designers at Figma and greatly impacted how it looked over the years. His thoughts on the redesign: ​“Not a fan of the floating sidebars, the rounded icons or the tiny layer hit targets, but I think pretty much everything else is good.”

Designer Joel Miller: ​“We’ve reorganized our properties panel to focus on component properties and added the ability to resize the panel to see more of a component description and longer label names.”

He also shows a new approach to layout properties with new Position and Layout panels, the new Auto Layout panel, a new setting that allows you to see labels above controls, and a way to join the waitlist.

Designer Ryhan Hassan shares insights into an incredibly challenging task of redesigning Figma. See also one of the early demos of UI3 from a few years ago.

Tim Van Damme created all the beautiful new icons for the UI3. (In his podcast with Lenny, Dylan Field shared how, in the early days of Figma, he often traced Tim’s icon sets from Dribbble to test Figma’s vector capabilities. Now, his icons have come full circle back to Figma.)

Pablo Stanley highlights some of the little details that were announced at Config.

All in-person attendees received this beautiful zine from Figma, exploring AI, design, and code.

Martin Bekerman is back with a new vector illustration made in Figma.

Checks out.

Great advice from Jayneil Dalal and Cecilia Uhr that I follow religiously: ​“A mistake junior designers make is they delete or overwrite their design iterations in Figma. You shouldn’t do this because you never know when you might need to use that deleted design iteration or explain to your team why that iteration didn’t work.”