Videos
Office Hours: Auto Layout
Designer Advocates Rogie King and Anthony DiSpezio show how the updated Auto Layout works, discuss the best practices, and answer questions from the audience.
In the File: Governing your design system
Pinterest’s Ashley Seto and Fidelity Investments’ Taylor Cashdan and Mark Steinruck provide a behind the scenes look into their design systems and the operations that keep them going.
Office hours: Get started with Variants
Figma’s Designer Advocates share how Variants work and answer questions.
In the File: Designing together with Herman Miller and BASIC
“Building a great relationship between a client and their agency is easier said than done. Join us as we sit down with the BASIC agency and their client, Herman Miller’s Design Within Reach, and get an inside look into how they built a transparent process that works.”
10 Tips to Work 10x Faster in Figma
Carola Pescio Canale, Product Designer at Dropbox, shares a short list of her favorite tips and shortcuts to speed up Figma workflow.
Supercharged Boolean Options
A new video by Figma55, quickly demoing a few tips on using Boolean Operators.
Why Motion Matters in Product Design
Design Lead Gabriela Schmitz from LottieFiles gave a talk at Figma Meetup. If you didn’t try it yet, Lottie has a popular plugin for Figma.
The Recordings From Config Europe
All 22 talks from Config Europe are now available on YouTube. Don’t miss the keynote by Dylan Field and a closing talk by Haraldur Thorleifsson that are not part of the playlist for some reason.
In the File: Building a Design System Around Collaboration, Not Components
It’s all too easy to focus your design system on the perfect component, missing out on the aspect that’ll ensure your success – collaboration. Join Zalando’s Louise From and Julia Belling to understand how they created, educated, and scaled their internal design system.
Level Up Your Design Documentation With a Design Deck
A new video and free Figma template from Femke. “Impactful designers are great at communicating design decisions and documenting design process. This is the deck to level up your communication and documentation process.”
Config Europe 2020 – Keynote Highlights, Dylan Field
If you didn’t have a chance to watch the full keynote yet, this is a short 6‑minute long video with main highlights.
Interface Design PRO-TIPS inside Figma
MDS designs a quick concept of the would-be iOS app inside of Figma.
Keynote, Dylan Field – Embracing the tension between design and code
Watch Dylan Field, CEO of Figma, talk about Figma in Europe and demo new design systems features.
Build it in Figma: Create a Design System V — Documentation
Rogie shows the best practices for documenting your design system using Figma and other tools.
Build it in Figma: Create a Design System IV — Testing
Testing a design system to see if the component library is robust enough in real-world scenarios.
Office Hours: Complex Component Architecture
Rogie and Joey talk about best practices for building cards, dialogs, navigations, forms, and other forms of complex components.
Community Spotlight: Design Starter Kits
Three Figma community resources to get you started on your next web, iOS, or Android design project. Hope Community Spotlight will become regular series!
Building a Data Visualization UI Kit in Figma
Alex from the Headway team explains how to build a simple data visualization kit in Figma. He also discusses the pros and cons of building a library vs. using a plugin for this kind of work.
