In this episode, Charli Marie talks to Remilla (Senior Brand Designer) and Damien (Creative Director) from Figma’s Brand Studio team about how they enable anyone in the company to create brand assets in Figma while still maintaining quality and consistency.
A practical walkthrough by Ridd of how you can use slot components to build a scalable system in Figma that is efficient and flexible.
A 3‑hour long free introductory video course by Dan Scott.
“We’re bringing our open platform to FigJam so developers can build plugins and widgets to automate workflows and engage the entire team. Widgets are interactive, native-like objects — like polls, games, and notepads — that the entire team can use together. Hear from Figmates and developers from the Community to see how you can build your own!”
“Get an inside look into how engineers across Figma use FigJam to stay aligned, share feedback, and communicate complex problems. We’ll showcase how we’ve integrated FigJam into our engineering process and arm you with templates to use with your team.”
Ridd shows how he automated a repetitive part of his workflow with Automator.
“Learn how to use branching for exploring and testing alternate designs, and for sharing work with development partners.”
“Join Clara and Chad as they dive into branching with the help with Shana Hu (Product Designer), Oscar Nilsson (Product Designer), and John Fuetsch (Software Engineer), who contributed to getting the feature out the door. Conversation topics include early iterations, key use cases, and what the team is thinking about next.”
Danny Sapio is showing how Auto Layout can be used to create a scalable and flexible interface.
Femke shares some of her favorite educational resources, UI kits, and design systems for Figma.
Clara shows some of the plugins that already support keyboard parameters.
Ridd with a step-by-step walkthrough to help you design form components that scale without drowning yourself in variants.
Jan Six, Sr. Product Designer at GitHub, talks about creating a design tokens system in Figma. See also his plugin Design Tokens below.
Video recording of the latest announcements at FigJam: “Hear from Rogie, Bersabel, and Emily as they introduce Templates, new shapes, code blocks, open sessions, plugins, widgetsand new pricing! We’ll also feature live demos of widgets from our partners at Donut, Stark, and CoderPad; watch to learn how you can make FigJam the home for your brainstorms.“
“Join to hear from Lauren Duxbury and Julie Lee at Honeywell about how they evaluated, tested, and advocated for a design system that works for designers.”
Luis shows how to create styles at rocket speed using batch renaming and the Styler plugin.
If you liked Jan Toman’s talk at Schema, check out this one as well.
Impressive hyper-realistic prototype of a calendar made with interactive components.