Hover over design panel options to preview different settings and properties before committing to them.
(Font preview is in the works!)
Feb 21, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Do more with video in your prototypes. We’ve made it easier to create realistic video players in Figma.
Add interactions that let you play, pause, mute, or skip to timestamps in a single frame. And you can now trigger events with video playback.
See more in the 🧵
You can now preview videos in the design panel. Play or scrub the video preview and get the perfect timestamp for your interactions.
Feb 6, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Working smarter, not harder also applies to prototyping. 😉
Here are six #FigmaTips from Designer Advocate @_AnaBoyer for prototyping in Figma.
1/ Draw prototyping links from navigational components to reduce the need for repeatedly drawing connections.
2/ Create interactive components in your libraries, so designs that use those components already have micro-interactions built into their prototypes, adding an additional level of fidelity.
Dec 15, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
A few months ago, @linear experienced a DDoS that took down their freshly redesigned site. 💔
We spoke with their team about how they got the idea to make their homepage their Figma files, unintentionally throwing the Figma party of the year…
bit.ly/3FWkvJa
A few days prior to launch, @pacocoursey had teased the team's in-progress Figma files. Was now the perfect opportunity to finally share them with the world?
We've hidden something "insanely great" deep in the Figma archives. 👀
First person to find it gets Figma swag. 🙌
Oct 26, 2021 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
As part of today's prototyping launch, we’re excited to announce that interactive components are available to everyone. 🥳
During the beta, we were blown away by what our community created.
Interested in getting started? Check out these examples for inspiration…
1/ Try using interactive components to create UI microinteractions at scale. @abelfhancock has made it easy for you to get started.
We’re excited to announce that interactive components are now available for everyone to use. Plus, we have some other updates to make your prototyping life easier.
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1/ We’ve added a shortcut to toggle between the design and prototyping tabs.
Speed up your workflow by using Shift + E to easily navigate between the tabs in Figma.
Sep 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Continuing on all things design systems! Did you know Figma curates designsystems.com? There is a wealth of content here written by the community. Here are some of my favorite articles 👇
1/ This article from the team @lyftdesignteam on platform parity; we’re really looking forward to hearing more from their team at #Schema2021designsystems.com/a-system-built…
At Figma we love talking about design systems and hearing about people’s library structures and how they're improving over time.
We love it so much that we’re dedicating a whole day to it. Plus we have a really exciting announcement…👇
2/ I’m excited to introduce #Schema2021– Figma’s first design systems conference.
Level up your skills in Figma with some of our favorite community files and plugins inspired by video games. #NationalVideoGameDay
Level 1: Medals Design System🏅
Download the community file by @RyanYu0527 for access to components to use in your own work. bit.ly/3A5lOjy
Level 2: Virtual Escape Room 🕵️♀️
Use components and instances to find clues hidden around the house to lead you to the end of this virtual escape room created by @pigeonerTM.
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2/ First up, Figma Measure, created by @phlp_ and @crlhsr.
This plugin provides on-canvas documentation to show customizable redlines for heights and widths.
You can also add tooltips for font details, fill colors, border radius, and more. bit.ly/FigmaMeasure
Jun 17, 2021 • 32 tweets • 10 min read
When you’re in Figma 8 hours a day, every click matters. And even small annoyances can have a big impact on your flow.
We gathered your feedback and came up with 30 updates to enhance your workflow in Figma.
Here are all 30. ⬇️What’s your favorite? figma.com/community/file…
1/30 First up: a redesigned stroke panel for easier customization of vector objects.
Now you can:
→ Adjust end caps to easily create arrows
→ Fine-tune the stroke properties of connectors copied and pasted from FigJam
May 20, 2021 • 28 tweets • 8 min read
This is a story of a Figma bug that wasn’t a bug at all.
In November of 2019, one of our users reported this: ⁝ MW
In short, pressing Shift+2 using one key worked, but pressing Shift+2 using the numeric keypad key didn’t.
Curiously, the bug only happened on Windows, and not on a Mac.
May 20, 2021 • 29 tweets • 10 min read
It’s the coldest of takes that as a designer you have to learn to constantly switch between thinking of big things and considering details. ⁝ MW
The former is crucial, but the details can make or break a product. On the other hand, details can also suffocate you – there are endless small fixes, torrents of bugs, and infinite polish that could be applied to anything… but there is never infinite time.
May 20, 2021 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Hi! This is Marcin.
For the last year or so, I have been obsessed with Sutro Tower, a TV and radio tower that’s almost exactly in the center of San Francisco. It’s 300m in height, and sitting on a hill that’s just as tall itself. ⁝ MW
The tower has been there since 1973, and it’s become a weird icon – a thing you must acknowledge is not beautiful in any traditional sense, but you grow to like over time as an almost-constant skyline companion in SF.
May 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
What’s up people!? It’s @nannearl_ 👋🏾🙂 I do research for the growth team here at Figma & they’re tossing the keys my way to run this thing for the day… so I guess that’s what’s happening. 😅 brb *googles “how to tweet professionally”*
-Nannearl
Gonna use this thread to share 3 things about me (because, why not?), starting with:
1. I’m very good at answering questions with questions (which is why research is right up my alley, I guess). Ask me anything & I’ll have a question ready for you. 😎
-Nannearl
May 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Let’s create some...FigArt?
Jump into this FigJam file, I’ll be hanging out in there for the next hour or so:
That was SO fun! Thanks for joining our last Twitter Space, but hayooo, we're not done. In our next Twitter space jam, we're going to be talking to a few of our artists for stickers of FigJam — @byalicelee, @alanady and @Jabronus.