Videos

Software Engineer Jon Kaplan, Product Designers Nikolas Klein and Chia Amisola, and Prototyping Product Manager Garrett Miller talk about the newly announced advanced prototyping features.

A short video tutorial on building advanced prototypes with variables and two new prototyping actions: Set Variables and Conditional.

An in-depth session by Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach and Design Systems PM Jacob Miller on how you can level up your design system in Figma for better scalability, theming, and more using variables.

This short video tutorial covers how variables work, and how to use them to represent design tokens and account for different modes and themes.

An in-depth session with practical perspectives on how designers and developers can leverage brand new Figma capabilities to unlock tighter collaboration with one another, prepared by four Figmates — Developer Advocate Jake Albaugh, Group Product Manager Avantika Gomes, Designer Advocate Lauren Andres, and Software Engineer Jenny Lea.

A YouTube playlist with recordings of all 47 sessions (some split into multiple videos) from Config. As the conference had 5 tracks on the first day and 6 tracks on the second, I didn’t attend most of those sessions and looking forward to catching up during the next few weeks.

If you have time for only one thing this week, this should be it. First, Figma CEO Dylan Field introduces new features — variables, auto layout updates, and advanced prototyping. Then, CTO Kris Rasmussen talks about rethinking product building from the ground up and how the new Dev Mode is bringing design and engineering closer together. In the end, Dylan talks about file browser refresh, font previews, and what AI could look like in Figma — wrapping things up by announcing the acquisition of Diagram.

I watched every Config keynote over the years, and this year’s announcements were the most anticipated and ambitious ever. It’s incredible to see how Figma is growing in depth and breadth at the same time, now providing incredibly advanced tools while covering an entire product-building process from brainstorming to design to development. Exciting time to be a maker.

A new workshop from Miggi and Alex on making icons in Figma. ​“In this workshop, we will explore various ways to leverage vector shapes, boolean operations, the pen tool, and more to create reusable icons. These skills can also be applied to producing graphics, illustrations, logos, and other designs that can be used across different platforms.”

A new talk from the Creator of Tokens Studio Jan Six and a Fullstack Developer Andrew L’Homme on the future of brand management and what the Tokens Studio team has in store for design token management.

Christine Vallaure recorded a comprehensive guide to setting up, connecting, and updating libraries.

Charli Marie with ten tips on how you can get the most out of FigJam.

Davo Galavotti’s talk at last year’s The Future of Design Systems Conference. He shows how to use Figma and a few plugins like Automator and Scripter to automate repetitive tasks and streamline the design process to improve efficiency and productivity. (Disclaimer: The Future of Design Systems Conference sponsors this issue, but this link is not sponsored.)

Figma published an 80-minute course walking us through the entire design system journey and covering fundamental concepts, building and testing, documenting, and everything in between. Fantastic introduction to the topic, even if you just want to organize your knowledge.

Denislav Jeliazkov from UI Learn shows quick ways to improve the use of colors in interfaces.

Tutorial Tim shows how to use the AI plugin Wireframe Designer.

Silvia Bormüller interviews Chris Lüders about his upcoming ​“The Power of AI in Design Systems” workshop, where they discuss how AI can help with the design systems documentation, how tokens help in daily work, and the steps and prompts for generating design tokens for Tokens Studio with ChatGPT.

In this Study Hall, Miggi shows how to make Interactive Component carousel galleries.

In this video, Darshan Gajara from Consistent Creators podcast talks to Designer Advocate Luis Ouriach about his role at Figma, overcoming burnout, building an audience, and the breakdown of his viral Twitter threads.

“Get an inside look into how the design team at Mixpanel builds internal morale, a culture of coaching, and team trust. In this livestream, you’ll hear directly from two design managers about how they’ve made the relationship between managers and designers more human-centered. They’ll share insights on how to foster a culture of collaboration and feedback, templates for both managers and ICs, and provide practical strategies and tactics to use in your next 1:1!”

“FigJam is the perfect card sorting tool for research teams. In this tutorial, we’ll teach you how to create a card sorting template and how to use FigJam to run a card sorting activity with your participants.”