A new three-part video series with DesignOps Assembly to dive into what DesignOps is, the signs to further invest in it, and insider knowledge on how to effectively scale the practice. In this first session, Taylor Oliva, Head of DesignOps at Instacart, and Adam Fry-Pierce, Head of DesignOps at Docusign, dive into how to determine when your company needs to build out DesignOps.
Sean Rice shows how he does regression tests in GoDaddy’s Figma libraries.
Miggi shows how to create a FigJam file, maximize the FigJam collaboration features, navigate the FigJam toolbar, add text, images, and stickers to your file, use sections for organization, and finally, how to invite others to your FigJam file.
Interesting talk by Zeplin’s co-founder and Head of Product Berk Cebi on the evolution of design systems over the last 10 years, the role that design tools play in this process, and the unfortunate disconnect between our design components, code, and documentation. He suggests design tokens may be one of the potential solutions and shows how they can be used to connect the parts of the design system.
A new video from the Figma Bites: “In this video, we teach you the basics of interactive components and how you can use them in your prototypes. We’ll walk through how you can create prototype connections between component variants to build up more accurate interactions.”
A recording of a big workshop from the Friends of Figma Portugal meetup.
The team at LottieFiles explains how to recreate an animation from Apple’s iPad mini website.
Video series helping educators learn tips & tricks and see how others use Figma & FigJam in the classroom.
Rogie talks with designers from Applied Intuition about balancing the inherent complexity of the autonomous vehicles development process with simple UX solutions that span both 2D and 3D spaces
Figma dropped a new tutorial: “With component properties, you can define which parts of a component can change. And instead of creating separate variants, you can use component properties to reduce the number of components needed. This takes the guesswork out of designing for anyone using these components and they can quickly make adjustments as Figma keeps component property controls in one place.”
Miggi shows how to use images as masks.
That’s a pretty badass collection of shortcuts — I didn’t know most of them!
Join to hear from the team at Coda and learn about their regular “design jams.” In this talk, Helena, Alicia, and Steve will share stories of using jams for everything from team building, to brainstorming without restraints, and even gathering input from the full company.
Learn how to create a token-based Design System in Figma with Jan Six, creator of the Figma Tokens Plugin.
A high-quality free tutorial from Design+Code: “Design a Web app design inspired by Discord and Slack in the Figma design tool.”
A 4‑part video series from Figma, showing how to build a demo plugin that creates a customizable post for a social media app design. Don’t miss the next parts: Introduction to Plugins & API, Plugin Environment Setup, and Building Your Plugin.
“We’re excited to talk about yet another awesome new feature: Component properties. Join us as product manager Jacob Miller and designer advocate Chad Bergman share more on how you can reduce variant explosion in your design systems and improve developer handoff.”
“Learn all about the redesigned Auto Layout. We’ll walk you through how to use the new properties panel and on-screen controls, as well as showcase the new layout features like absolute positioning, negative spacing, and more.”
“Tune in to hear Clara, Amanda, and Qi walk through how to get started and unlock more font styles. From optical sizing to slant, learn how variable fonts give you more design control and expression.”
Gary Simon shows how to properly design and prototype common form interactions in Figma.