Videos

What a wonderful and heartful video by brand designer Devin Mathews. I enjoyed every minute of it and immediately subscribed to the channel — hope there is more to come! ​“I’ve designed for Apple, Nike, Google: some of the biggest and most influential companies in the world. After some reflection and a mini midlife crisis, I decided to take on my most ambitious project yet, rebranding a small local sandwich shop for free!”

“In this interview, Jay chats with Natasha Tenggoro who shows how she designed growth features for FigJam. We’ll learn about Natasha’s design process, Growth Design, designing upgrade flows and more.”

Jesse Showalter explores 5 latest features: Lock Aspect Ratio, Collapse Layers, Reorder Modes and Collections, Accessibility Contrast Information, and Copy and Paste Styles.

Jay chats with Natasha Tenggoro who shows how she designed AI features for Figma Slides. You will learn about Natasha’s design process, AI design, designing shadows, design explorations for Slides and more.

The recording of the latest Release Notes livestream is finally available. While these updates have already been covered in the last two issues, I always enjoy watching hands-on demos and explainers. In this episode, Luis Ouriach and Alexia Danton share all the latest goodies like FigPals (RIP), design handoff releases, accessibility contrast info, annotations in design mode, collapsing layers, reordering modes and collections, and more.

Miggi breaks down his favorite features in Figma Slides, including automatically changing text color for accessibility, choosing slide templates from other decks, grid view, slide numbers, live interactions, and more.

“In this interview, Jay chats with Natasha Tenggoro who shows how she designed AI features for FigJam. You will learn about Natasha’s design process, AI design, presenting to leadership and more.”

This one is a big ​“finally” for me! BRB, I have some library cleanup to do.

In time for fully transitioning to UI3, Jay chats with Tim Van Damme who shows how he designed UI3 icons in Figma. You will learn about Tim’s icon design process, preserving visual weight, how he makes icons playful, and more. Don’t miss part 2, where they discuss designing UI3.

Figma’s designer advocates, product designers, engineers, and PMs hung out in London to record a mini-series about craft, users, and the design process. In this episode, they discuss the challenges designers face in the industry and how Figma approaches the design process to overcome these challenges. In the following Users episode, they cover how Figma product development teams approach user feedback and incorporate it into their design process.

The Pragmatic Engineer podcast: ​“How do you take a new product idea, and turn it into a successful product? Figma Slides started as a hackathon project a year and a half ago – and today it’s a full-on product, with more than 4.5M slide decks created by users. I’m joined by two founding engineers on this project: Jonathan Kaufman and Noah Finer.” Read two interesting takeaways from this episode on X.

See if color contrast meets accessibility standards right within the color picker. I’m glad this is now built-in and the UI looks great (see an X thread from Billy Sweeney), but as a color nerd and creator of Accessible Palette, I wish Figma went a step further and supported APCA. I wrote about issues with the WCAG 2 back in 2021 (see the last section), and Arthur Objartel made a strong case for supporting it as well.

In this interview, Jay chats with product designer Kelly Li who shows how she redesigned Figma Community. You will learn about Kelly’s design process, A/B testing, sharing research findings, and design explorations for the Figma Community.

Luis Ouriach sat down with the Figma team to talk about craft – what is it, how do they define it, and how can you get better at it. This is the first out of three videos in a new mini-series called Blend Mode.

Y Combinator President & CEO Garry Tan sits down with Dylan Field to discuss ​“the evolving world of design in the age of AI, the challenging early days of the company, and how his team forever changed the way designers and engineers collaborate.”

While this video focuses on education, all examples can be easily translated into the work setting. Five creative ways to use pages in FigJam to bring structure, clarity, and collaboration: give each collaborator their own page, set up digital breakout rooms, organize content step-by-step, create resource boards, and keep everything in one spot for easy planning.

An interview with Gavin McFarland, a prolific creator of popular Figma plugins like Table Creator, Figlet, and FigMayo. Gavin also works on Plugma, a powerful command-line interface for streamlining your plugin development workflow.

Jay chats with Tammy Taabassum, a Product Designer at Figma, who shows how she redesigned notifications for Figma. You will learn about Tammy’s design process, handling tough user feedback, design explorations, and more.

What a fun design challenge! Tommy Geoco and Hunter Hammonds came up with a prompt to design a landing page for an AI robotics company and provided live commentary, while Brett from Designjoy built a website in Framer and Henrik built another in Lovable, all in just 45 minutes.

Nolan Perkins designs a Pomodoro app on a live stream. Check out the file as well.