Videos

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.

If you’ve already caught up with the Config videos, here is a new YouTube playlist with recordings from the Config APAC, which happened the following week after the main Config in San Francisco.

A quick tip from Miggi on using grids to generate type scale and place graphics.

Noah Jacobus from Font Awesome shows how to preserve monotone and duotone icon overrides by maintaining consistent layer names and using boolean unions.

“How do Replit & Linear approach designer to developer collaboration? We’ll talk to two high-performing teams about streamlining design-to-code handoff for shipping better products. Learn insights on effective collaboration and ideal workflows with Figma’s Dev Mode, Linear, and Replit.”

If one Config wasn’t enough for you, here is a second one-day event at the Asia Pacific region, ​“full of keynotes, sessions, and programming designed to connect a dynamic community of builders to the future of product design & development.” Most of the talks were unique to this event.

In this episode of Dive recorded at Config, Ridd talks to Figma design engineer Vincent van der Meulen about how the new Visual Search feature was born from a mid-project pivot. Don’t miss Vincent’s original pitch video for visual search in Figma.

A very timely episode of Dive, where Ridd interviews Jordan Singer live at Config about his journey from the Diagram acquisition to Figma’s 2024 AI release. In the middle, they discuss how Figma’s generative features work and why they needed to create a UI kit. (A funny inception moment — at 45:22, I’m coming into view to take this picture.)

Ridd shows his advanced Raycast setup. One thing I adopted immediately is the Figma File Search extension he recommended — what a wonderful time-saver! The Color Picker and Ruler extensions might replace some of the third-party tools I’ve been relying on as well. 

I shared Lenny’s interview with Mihika a couple of months ago, but it’s worth recommending again now that it’s clear that this ​“0 to 1” product she talked about was Figma Slides.

“In this video, we’ll take a tour around the Figma Slides editor so you can start creating your own presentations.”

“When it comes to design handoff, communication is key. As designs change, designers need to be able to iterate while still providing clarity to developers about what’s new and what’s ready to build.”

This session is a must-see if you have time for only one. CEO Dylan Field’s opening keynote walks through how Figma rethinks product development from the ground up and introduces new methods to help you make great work.

A 2‑hour course by Meng To on building a real website from a Figma template using Codux. ​“You’ll master responsive design, collaborate with developers on a real React project, export CSS from Figma using Locofy, set up breakpoints with media queries, add CSS animations, improve SEO, create multiple pages with React Router, and publish your site. By following best practices, you’ll bridge design and development, improve your web design skills.” 

Double Glitch made a new tutorial on creating a real working parallax effect in Figma. Don’t miss the Community file as well! 

Ridd explains how to make your components easier to use by exposing nested instances.

Rob Hope interviews a design wizard Vijay Verma. ​“Vijay Verma is a talented designer renowned for his intricate Figma art and his extensive portfolio of free digital resources. In this episode, we explore his humble beginnings as an electrician in India and his rise to become one of the most beloved designers in the Figma community. Additionally, we have a special case study where Vijay walks us through his character design process, complete with a bonus time-lapse recording he sent after the interview.”