Designer Advocate Clara is interviewed by Lovers Magazine about her path into design, getting inspiration, community work, and workstation ..read more

we, as a civilization, forgot how to center things.” As always, his essay gets into nitty-gritty design details in the most hilarious way. He explains how , font metrics, and icons get in the way of centering things and what designers and developers can do about them ..read more

A tutorial on creating an AI-powered Figma plugin that generates colors based on your descriptions. It’s pretty cool to see how accessible it becomes to build a plugin using ..read more

Create a FigJam board during or outside of a Google Meet call to jam remotely or in person ..read more

Jacob Miller, a Product Manager for Design Systems at Figma, gives an overview of everything launched at Framework — Code Connect for developers, typography and gradient variables, and the new Library Analytics . All of the above is designed to drive design system adoption across the teams because building a design system is only half the battle — the real challenge is getting it adopted by both designers and developers.” If you missed the event, that’s one summary you need ..read more

series on getting started with design systems with a walkthrough of the basics of creating a system tailored to your unique goals and challenges, whether building from scratch or starting with existing pieces ..read more

Joey Banks recaps the Framework announcements. On choosing between styles and variables: Wait, but styles don’t allow for modes, right? Wouldn’t the use of styles prevent us from switching themes or brands? Actually, this is what I’m most excited about with this update, and it’s the further positioning of how styles can be useful in combination with variables. Because all styles (yes, typography now, too!) can use variables, adjusting one variable mode within a style will adjust all variables to reflect that new mode change ..read more

After finalizing and polishing their work in Figma, designers often expect developers to magically make sense of it. However, as that’s not usually the case, things can end up looking pretty grim. What’s going wrong?” The authors blame the outdated handoff mindset and suggest the four steps that can turn the handoff process from a potential headache into a smooth collaboration ..read more

Considering it’s only a couple of months until Config to share new features, best practices, and a peek into what’s coming next in the half-day event. We’ll share more about new capabilities to make design systems more powerful and easier to adopt, as well as features to connect your system closer to code. Our product sessions will dive deep into strategies for structuring and maintaining your system.” , it’s pretty clear they will put a bow on some of the features announced last year ..read more

This April Fun Day, Figma had some fun with cursors. What better way to celebrate this icon of interaction than with a look back at digital eras through the decades? For one week starting this April Fun Day, you’ll be able to choose throwback cursors inspired by four aesthetics from internet history: We’re calling them , Skeuomorphic, and Aero. Here, we reminisce about bygone trends and reveal how we brought these vintages back to life ..read more