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2020
December
2020
Inside Figma: a case study on strict null checks
Rudi Chen | Engineering
Redesigning Dropbox’s ways of working
Morgan Kennedy | Editorial
Meet us in the browser
Dylan Field | Editorial
Adding it all up: the math behind designing your career
Kylie Poppen | Editorial
November
2020
Behind the feature: the making of the new Auto Layout
Willy Wu | Engineering
October
2020
Bridging design and code with Variants
Kelsey Whelan | Product
Behind the feature: the hidden challenges of autosave
Rudi Chen | Engineering
How Kimberly-Clark brings your favorite paper products into your home
Ana Castrillon | Product
Learning and failing as a team
Alia Fite | Editorial
Reflections on Figma’s inaugural Student Fellowship
Brie Wolfson | Editorial
Power up your design system with Figma’s agency partners
Sean Whitney | Product
Creating moments of connection
Alia Fite | Editorial
September
2020
Building an open and inclusive design process
Alia Fite | Editorial
When fonts fall
Marcin Wichary | Editorial
Six integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma
Wayne Ng | Product
Inside Figma: my time as a new grad
Josh Shi | Engineering
The many dimensions of trust in design
Alia Fite | Editorial
Embracing the tension between code and design
Dylan Field | Product
On pitching and presenting
Abigail Africa | Editorial
Figma’s new EMEA HQ
Dylan Field | Editorial
Making Design Within Reach for online shoppers
Ana Castrillon | Editorial
Creating multi-brand design systems
Priya Kotak | Editorial
August
2020
Inside Figma: enterprise, explained
Aashima Garg | Engineering
React at 60fps: improving scrolling comments in Figma
Kiko Lam | Engineering
How we use Figma templates to facilitate collaboration at Shopify
Tobias Negele | Editorial
An open letter about my gap year
Abigail Africa | Editorial
How work is changing at Figma
Dylan Field | Editorial
Explore the Figma Community
Heather Tompkins | Product
Inside Figma: reflections on a remote internship
Jenning Chen | Engineering
July
2020
Announcing Config Europe: a call for speakers
Azra Daniels | Editorial
Behind the feature: shedding light on shadow spread
Lauren Budorick | Product
A deep dive on deep search
Shloak Jain | Product
How BT, a 174-year-old company, continues to push the telecommunication industry forward
Ana Castrillon | Product
How Clearstep simplifies the experience of finding care online
Peter Garber and Annie Kramer | Editorial
June
2020
How to evaluate design tools
Alia Fite | Editorial
How to get closer with your developer
Helena Jaramillo | Editorial
Beyond mocks: co-designing journeys, diagrams, and more
Hareem Mannan | Editorial
May
2020
The making of Maker Week
Tori Hinn | Editorial
Bringing live Figma embeds to your team’s favorite tools
TJ Pavlu | Product
Finding design inspiration at home
Alia Fite | Editorial
How to pair design (and convince your boss to invest in it)
Nina Mehta | Editorial
Inside Figma: the product design team’s process
Noah Levin | Editorial
April
2020
Figma’s Series D round
Dylan Field | Product
Postmortem: Service disruption on April 29th, 2020
Kris Rasmussen | Product
Bridge design and development with the new Zeplin integration
Berk Çebi | Product
Bringing Figma to even more classrooms
Brie Wolfson | Product
The case for lightweight prototyping
Alia Fite | Editorial
How Inneract Project empowers the next generation of brown and black designers
Maurice Woods | Editorial
11 activities in Figma for your classroom
Miguel Cardona | Editorial
Figma + Lambda School: Where the remote classroom comes together to learn
Brie Wolfson | Editorial
Look no further: New ways to search and provide context in Figma
Meagan Gamache | Product
Research, remotely
Alia Fite | Editorial
Building on our open platform: Design in Figma, prototype with Framer
Dylan Field | Product
Keeping that tight-knit feeling, at a distance
Alia Fite | Editorial
How Students Who Design set up Figma in their online classroom
Students Who Design | Product
March
2020
How to run a remote brainstorm
Alia Fite | Editorial
Extend what’s possible with plugins for you and your team
Thomas Lowry | Product
Finding confidence in design decisions
Linda Eliasen | Editorial
The Dropbox guide to building creative culture
Michelle Morrison | Editorial
February
2020
Reflections on Config, our first user conference
Dylan Field | Editorial
New ways to create, collaborate, and share more openly
Dylan Field | Product
January
2020
Test designs early and often with the new Maze integration
Jonathan Widawski | Product
Post-mortem: Service disruption on January 21-22, 2020
John Firebaugh | Product
Figma on Figma: How we built our website design system
Andrea Helmbolt | Editorial
Bringing the community together in Figma
Amanda Kleha | Editorial
2019
December
2019
Measuring the value of design systems
Clancy Slack | Product
Made in Figma, 2019: Design by the numbers
Brie Wolfson | Editorial
"The Decade of Design”: How the last 10 years transformed design’s role in tech
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Design more, resize less, with Auto Layout
Sho Kuwamoto | Product
November
2019
Humanity at work: Gusto brings a new brand to life with Figma
Morgan Kennedy | Editorial
Under the hood of Figma’s infrastructure: Here’s what goes into powering a web-based design tool
Samir Goel | Engineering
Opening up the data behind your design systems
Thomas Lowry | Product
October
2019
Let’s create Figma’s first user conference together
Claire Butler | Editorial
Beyond multiplayer: Building community together in Figma
Dylan Field | Product
How Figma’s multiplayer technology works
Evan Wallace | Engineering
Bringing new life to Figma’s brand
Tori Hinn | Editorial
Customer journey mapping with Figma
Nelson Taruc | Editorial
Designing for top feature requests, like Smart Animate
Nikolas Klein | Product
An update on plugin security
Evan Wallace | Engineering
September
2019
How a designer makes background patterns to push her creativity
Namika Hamasaki | Editorial
Plugin Show & Tell—Some highlights
Thomas Lowry | Product
An ode to OpenType: Fall in love with the secret world of fonts
Marcin Wichary | Product
Design critiques at Figma
Noah Levin | Editorial
August
2019
How Microsoft built plugins to improve their workflow
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Keeping your data in Figma safe and secure: SOC 2 Type 2, SSO, and more
Samir Goel | Product
Plugins to help you design with real content
Thomas Lowry | Product
How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night
Rudi Chen | Engineering
Design for everyone with these accessibility-focused plugins
Thomas Lowry | Product
How to wireframe
Toni Gemayel | Product
5 utility plugins to speed up your workflow
Thomas Lowry | Product
The birth of Inter: How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
How to run a design sprint
Andrea Helmbolt | Editorial
Automate work. Bring in real data. Extend what’s possible with Figma Plugins.
Sho Kuwamoto | Product
July
2019
Behind the Plugins: Jackie Chui, UX Designer @ Microsoft
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Behind the Plugins: Matt DesLauriers, Generative Artist & Creative Coder
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Behind the Plugins: Yitong Zhang, Product Designer @ Coinbase
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Behind the Plugins: Tiffany Chen, UX Designer @ Microsoft
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Behind the Plugins: Sam Mason de Caires, UX Engineer @ Cloudflare
Morgan Kennedy | Product
A step-by-step guide to using Figma for retrospectives
Joey Banks | Product
Product design portfolio tips from a Figma recruiter
Korin Harris | Editorial
Bring Figma prototypes to life with GIFs
Lauren Budorick | Product
June
2019
What’s new on DesignSystems.com: June roundup
Andrea Helmbolt | Editorial
What’s new recap: Component updates, plugins beta, and other goodies
Sho Kuwamoto | Product
What to expect when moving from Sketch to Figma
Josh Dunsterville | Product
Plugins are coming to Figma
Jonas Sicking | Product
Kick-start your typography system in Figma
Thomas Lowry | Product
May
2019
Tips for a better developer workflow in Figma
Thomas Lowry | Product
Proto GP: 5 ways to level up your prototyping workflow
Thomas Lowry | Product
Looking to improve your Figma workflow? Check out our updated user forum
Josh Dunsterville | Product
April
2019
Getting to the bottom of line height in Figma
Marcin Wichary | Product
GitHub takes its collaborative culture to a new level
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Reintroducing DesignSystems.com
Figma | Editorial
Our grid pro quo: Everything you need to know about layout grids in Figma
Thomas Lowry | Product
We refreshed Figma's UI: An inside look at our process
Rasmus Andersson | Product
#FigmaTip Roundup: Spring cleaning edition
Josh Dunsterville | Product
Pairing is the key to evangelizing your design system
Robin Rendle | Editorial
Introducing Figma Time Travel
Figma | Product
March
2019
Now you can open links in the Figma desktop app
Thomas Lowry | Product
Dribbble scores with live design collaboration for its completely remote team
Morgan Kennedy | Product
The power of Figma Drafts
Josh Dunsterville | Product
When to use groups versus frames in Figma
Thomas Lowry | Product
Imag(e)ine that: A guide to working with images in Figma
Josh Dunsterville | Product
Design on a deadline: How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
February
2019
Best practices: components, styles, and shared libraries
Thomas Lowry | Product
Bulb shines bright with Solar as its design system
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Getting started with teams in Figma Organization
Thomas Lowry | Product
Figma raises $40MM Series C round led by Sequoia
Dylan Field | Product
January
2019
Introducing Figma Organization: Our first enterprise-grade offering
Dylan Field | Product
Figma's engineering values
Thomas Wright | Engineering
Organize photo galleries, presentation slides and more with Smart Selection 2D
Badrul Farooqi | Product
2018
December
2018
Designing an open financial system at Coinbase
Morgan Kennedy | Product
State of Design Systems 2018
Figma | Editorial
Deliveroo serves up fast designs for a mouth-watering delivery experience
Morgan Kennedy | Product
How we built the Figma design team
Noah Levin | Product
Introducing the Figma Community Resources Hub
Claire Butler | Product
Our path to creating a precise PDF Exporter
Daniel Furse | Product
Introducing Overlays -- taking Prototyping to the next layer
Nikolas Klein | Product
November
2018
Zoom streamlines the design workflow with Figma
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Guide to developer handoff in Figma
Mirko Santangelo | Product
Nominate photography for the 2018 Unsplash Awards
Figma | Editorial
5 ways to structure your workflow with Pages in Figma
Josh Dunsterville | Product
Using constraints & “magic numbers” to build responsive layouts in Figma
littleBits Product | Editorial
Creating atomic components in Figma
littleBits Product | Editorial
Figma year in review: 2018
Dylan Field | Editorial
October
2018
Designers use Figma to bring Uber to the unbanked
Morgan Kennedy | Editorial
Animate your Figma designs with our new Principle integration
Matt Dailey | Product
Google’s AR Design Guidelines suffice while Apple’s fall short
Paul Reynolds | Editorial
Introducing Smart Selection
Rasmus Andersson | Product
Figma's New Finger Tips
Marcin Wichary | Product
We made a mistake with our API Challenge, and we’re sorry
Dylan Field | Product
Introducing: Figma’s first API Challenge
Josh Dunsterville | Product
September
2018
Multiplayer, IRL
Claire Butler | Product
How Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent’s Design team leverages Figma’s API to empower designers
Morgan Kennedy | Product
Aisle Rocket Studios, the agency behind Whirlpool, masters remote collaboration
Morgan Kennedy | Editorial
Figma Feature Highlight: Component Overrides
Figma-team | Product
Figma Feature Highlight: Sketch Import
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
August
2018
The University of the Arts London’s Accidental Path to a Design System
Figma-team | Editorial
The finale of Prototyping Week: Interactions
Daniel Chiu | Product
#FigmaTip Roundup 10.0
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Learn how a Microsoft designer built an internal Icon Library in his spare time
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
With Figma’s new SVG Exports, less = more
Birunthan Mohanathas | Product
Figma, faster 🏎
Jamie Wong | Engineering
Designer Q&A: Camellia Neri’s five catalysts for creativity
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Why transparent open design leads to happier clients
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
On the road: How two designers got rid of their hardware baggage
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Master the art of design portfolios with this free online Skillshare class
Thomas Lowry | Editorial
Figma feature highlight: Observation Mode
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
How Kiwi.com handles project structure, versioning & components in Figma
Denis Rojčyk | Editorial
July
2018
Introducing: Design Dictionary from Figma
Zach Grosser | Product
#FigmaTip Roundup 9.0
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
June
2018
Art of Listening: One designer's foray into experiential design
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Figma 3.0 (!)
Dylan Field | Product
How one designer motivates others to build more ethical products
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
A Sketch user’s perspective on switching to Figma
Marco Pacifico | Editorial
How one designer finds inspiration in rabble rousers like Bart Simpson
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
#FigmaTip Roundup 8.0
Figma-team | Product
With websites, what comes first: The copy or design?
Katie Gregorio | Editorial
May
2018
How one Figma engineer plays to her strengths: music, programming and cycling
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
How Virta Health uses Figma to help patients reverse type 2 diabetes
Figma-team | Editorial
How you can design end to end on a Chromebook
Zach Grosser | Editorial
5 ways to use Figma that you probably never thought of
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Material Design + Figma Styles = 🔥
Thomas Lowry | Product
Figma Styles beta: A new way to apply text and layer attributes
Nikolas Klein | Product
Rust in Production at Figma
Evan Wallace | Engineering
April
2018
Pinterest’s first design hire built an app for passion projects
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Introducing: Figma to React
Karl Jiang | Engineering
Want Figma API inspiration? Here's 8 community powered projects
Carmel DeAmicis | Product
5 steps to nailing your portfolio presentation in design interviews
Peter Herbert Barnaba | Editorial
FigmaTip Roundup 7.0
Valerie Veteto | Product
How Figma helped Sounds app reach 150k likes on Facebook
Amanda Van West | Editorial
Desperately seeking squircles
Daniel Furse | Engineering
March
2018
Introducing: Figma’s Platform
Kris Rasmussen | Product
Now you can name and annotate your Figma Version History
Figma-team | Product
Component architecture in Figma
Thomas Lowry | Product
How to hit the road as a UI/UX digital nomad
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Figma’s new word wiz
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
February
2018
Figma prototyping: now with transitions
Rudi Chen | Product
With love, from Figma: @mentions and file sorting
Kathryn Aaker Salant | Product
Web design without a web designer? Xfive turns to Figma.
Figma-team | Editorial
FigmaTip Roundup 6.0
Valerie Veteto | Product
Figma raises $25MM Series B
Dylan Field | Editorial
January
2018
Figma announces design system meetups in 6 cities around the world
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Figma Quality Week: Inside our bug bashing party
Jason Pearson | Product
#FigmaTip Roundup 5.0
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
How to convince your team to switch to Figma
Figma-team | Editorial
How Figma Transformed This Berkeley Design Class
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
2017
December
2017
18 designers predict UI/UX trends for 2018
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Stitch Fix accelerates design sprints by collaborating in Figma
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
#FigmaTip Roundup 4.0
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
More time, more money: How Figma accelerates agency workflows
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
November
2017
How to build your design system in Figma
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Advanced Project Permissions for design systems
Thomas Wright | Product
Introducing DesignSystems.com
Dylan Field | Editorial
5 international cities with up-and-coming UI/UX design communities
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
What Tesla’s Model 3 UI reveals about its vision for the future
Tom Johnson | Editorial
Introducing: Figma Pages
Larry Weinberg | Engineering
October
2017
10 UI/UX Design Internships Figma Users Swear By
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Figma Now Integrates with Zeplin
Dylan Field | Engineering
Why Professors at Stanford and UC Berkeley Use Figma to Teach Design
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
#FigmaTip Roundup 3.0
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
How to throw a design-friendly hackathon
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
ICYMI: An Overview of Figma’s Feature Release Week
Jason Pearson | Product
FigmaTip Roundup 2.0
Valerie Veteto | Product
Discover Hidden Functionalities with #FigmaTip Roundup 1.0
Valerie Veteto | Product
September
2017
This Twitter storm shows design systems are still up for debate
Valerie Veteto | Editorial
Introducing Figma’s Live Embed Kit
Dylan Field | Product
Team Library 1.0
Rasmus Andersson | Product
Introducing Live Embed of Figma designs in Trello & Jira Software
Karl Jiang | Product
August
2017
Figma + Dropbox Paper
Dylan Field | Product
Happy Emoji Release Day at Figma 🎉
Dylan Field | Product
July
2017
Figma 2.0: Now with Prototyping and Developer Handoff
Dylan Field | Engineering
Photo Filters Come To Figma
Elias Marquart | Editorial
June
2017
Introducing BrowserView for Electron
Birunthan Mohanathas | Engineering
Figma now has Guides
Shirley Miao | Engineering
Meet the design pioneers taking on the venture world
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
New design conference Vectors sold out in 2 days for a great reason
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x
Evan Wallace | Engineering
How One Pivotal Designer Escaped the Export-upload Abyss
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
May
2017
5 essential ways to use design constraints
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
How Braintree Cut Time Spent on Design Critiques by 50%
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Reflecting on Figma’s First Year
Dylan Field | Editorial
Introducing two-factor authentication for Figma
Badrul Farooqi | Engineering
Are hackathons the answer to the tech designer shortage?
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
This website shows that to find talented female designers, you just need to look
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Introducing Figma Mirror for Android
Badrul Farooqi | Engineering
New faces at the Figma helm
Dylan Field | Product
April
2017
5 books that shaped the design approach of Airbnb’s Jon Gold
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Top 4 design highlights from Facebook’s F8 conference
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
An alternative approach to rate limiting
Nikrad Mahdi | Engineering
March
2017
Figma’s new icon
Chris Hamamoto | Editorial
Advice on becoming a virtual reality designer from Facebook’s VR team
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Deciding whether to learn code wasn’t always such a weird rite of passage
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
The 6 design trends John Maeda predicted in his state of the union
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI?
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
Realtime Editing of Ordered Sequences
Evan Wallace | Engineering
Can designers make a political difference?
Carmel DeAmicis | Editorial
February
2017
Team Libraries in Figma
Bryn Jackson | Product
2016
December
2016
Components in Figma
Rasmus Andersson | Product
November
2016
Delete and Heal for Vector Networks
Jamie Wong | Engineering
Debugging Data Corruption with Emscripten
Evan Wallace | Engineering
September
2016
Multiplayer Editing in Figma
Evan Wallace | Product
August
2016
Introducing Figma’s Integration with Framer
Dylan Field | Product
July
2016
How to do content design / UX writing in Figma
Ryan Cordell | Editorial
February
2016
Introducing Vector Networks
Evan Wallace | Product
January
2016
From Furniture to Screens
Sarah Pease | Editorial
2015
December
2015
Slack From the Start
Dylan Field | Product
Grid Systems for Screen Design
Johan Prag | Product
Building a professional design tool on the web
Evan Wallace | Engineering
Design: Meet the Internet
Dylan Field | Product