Videos

Gary Simon makes a controversial case for not using grids in design. My 2 cents: grids help reduce the number of decisions you need to make, and maintaining a large set of mockups laid out with guides instead of Auto Layout sounds like a nightmare. That said, I think grids and Auto Layout should be added after figuring out the right direction, spacing, and hierarchy, not in the beginning.

In this video, Ridd shares the behind-the-scenes process of redesigning a website for Genway, from generating and exploring new ideas to skipping wireframing and going straight to high-fidelity work to progressively presenting ideas to stakeholders.

In this webinar, Designer Advocates Corey Lee and Hugo Raymond will guide you through communicating effectively through story-driven presentations and share techniques to up-level your slide designs to make your presentations and decks more compelling. ​“Good design tells a compelling story. How you convey that story can significantly impact its resonance with your audience.“

Luis Ouriach: ​“No one can deny the importance of accessibility, but successfully embedding accessibility into the heart of a business is no simple task. So where do you start?”

It was a great episode of the ​“In the File” series, where Luis Ouriach talks to the designer Yann-Edern Gillet and engineer Andreas Eldh from Linear about the recent update of their design system. I love their use of the LCH color space to generate a consistent palette and tight collaboration between design and engineering.

“You can get the attention of your audience and better communicate your ideas by turning them into simple, compelling stories. Join this livestream with Janis Ozolins to learn the principles of visual communication and see how to create compelling visuals in Figma Slides in a few easy steps.“

“Come learn the basics of how to use Figma Slides to communicate with your team and present to stakeholders. You’ll learn how to create, edit, and polish a Slide deck and how to present to your stakeholders.”

Figma Developer Advocate Jake Albaugh joins a livestream on the Visual Studio Code channel to talk about Figma for VS Code extension, allowing developers to easily access and inspect designs from VS Code.

In a short video, Ridd shows how to set up and use the Raycast Figma File Search extension to navigate your Figma files quickly.

“Diana Mounter, Head of Design at GitHub, hosted a panel of Hubbers from research, engineering, and design, discussing everything from customer-first approaches to the integration of AI, and collaboration across GitHub teams.”

Sam Oshin, Senior Director of Brand and Marketing at GitHub, demonstrates how GitHub’s brand team uses Figma and a unique philosophy to building and maintaining brand systems.

The myriad of design annotation kits and countless types of accessibility training only works if designers want to use them. Learn how Alexis Lucio and Jan Maarten, Senior Accessibility Designers at GitHub, build new tools in Figma and host product design bootcamps to get designers involved and excited about accessibility.

A day before Config, teams from GitHub and Figma hosted a dev community event with lightning talks. The recordings are finally available.

In the first talk, Katie Langerman, Staff Systems Designer at GitHub, shares how designing, testing, and shipping new design tokens at scale without disrupting users requires meticulous planning and care. She discusses how the Primer design system team revamped Primer Primitives with a new naming convention and build process, connecting core Figma libraries with code.

“Watch this recording to learn how to up-level your team’s presentations by creating beautiful, functional custom templates in Figma Slides. You’ll learn about how to use advanced features in Figma Slides, how to publish your templates, and best practices for designing decks for your team.”

“Join Damien Correll, Figma’s Creative Director, to learn about what makes a good story, how to shape your stories, how to design slides to let your story shine, and common slide design mistakes to avoid.”

Sam Anthony explores the most effective methods to export, share, and hand off your designs in Figma.

Mizko shares his favorite Figma tips and tricks — using status and annotation kits, nested arrows in names, min- and max-width in Auto Layout, variable modes for breakpoints, coying a FigJam connector to Figma, making icons searchable, Auto Layout a parent frame, looping variables, and user variables.

Slides PM Mihika Kapoor shares how to run the perfect product review using Figma Slides. You’ll learn best practices for getting the input you need, driving decisions, and aligning stakeholders around the work.

The Yo! Podcast by Rob Hope is one of my favorite shows. In this wrap-up of Season 3, Rob talks to Pablo Stanley: ​“Pablo Stanley is a designer, artist, and musician based in Mexico. We discuss the creative side of his childhood gang, the importance of having fun with your team, why he left the Roboto NFT community, monetizing his AI stock site, and the importance of details in all aspects of design.”

A behind-the-scenes look into the journey of launching Figma Slides. As Mihika noted, this talk could be considered the other half of her podcast with Lenny on building zero-to-one products from a few months ago.