My summer as a Figtern

Little Big Updates: More improvements for design and collaboration

What’s new in Figma: July 2022

Illuminating dark mode

Digital design is now a real job

What’s new in Figma: June 2022

How Figma put the bounce in spring animations

Postmortem: Service disruptions on June 6 & 7 2022

Figma and Chromebook: Empowering the next generation of designers

Full-scale expression with Grilli Type

A look back at Config 2022

A step forward in our accessibility efforts

Config 2022: Thinking big and acting with urgency

Figma Community Awards 2022

The power of emoji

What’s new in Figma: April 2022

Good ideas stick

What’s new in Figma: March 2022

Localization, languages, and listening

The art and influence of motion

FigJam for iPad: space to explore and ideate

Our response to Ukraine

What’s new in Figma: February 2022

Jamming on FigJam: a journey from beta to GA

Design needs everyone: new plans for companies that design together

Little Big Updates: dispatches from Quality Week

Little Big Updates: 32 fixes and features for a better workflow

From experiment to launch: how data shaped a new comments experience

The year ahead: a conversation with Soleio, Julie Zhuo, and May-Li Khoe

Frame 2021: design by the numbers

What’s new in Figma: December 2021

The Figma prototype challenge: 15 tips in 15 days

What’s new in Figma: November 2021

Stay in the flow with redesigned comments

Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Gavin McFarland

From candidate interviews to developer crits: how Figma engineering uses FigJam to scale

Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tekeste Kidanu

Behind the build: a Q&A with developer Tru Narla

What’s new in Figma: October 2021

Interactive components: less wiring, more inspiring

​​Open sessions: jam with anyone, anywhere

Introducing new FigJam prices and a more open platform

GraphQL, meet LiveGraph: a real-time data system at scale

How (and why) we built branching

What’s new in Figma: September 2021

How Elsewhen builds digital products for their clients

Announcing Schema, Figma’s design systems conference

Inside Figma: getting out of the (secure) shell

Talk it out in Figma and FigJam

Figma for students and educators

Rethinking a design thinking workshop for good

FIT’s principles for fostering a collaborative classroom

What’s new in Figma: August 2021

Bringing the power of our open platform to FigJam

Inside Figma: building a more collaborative design process

Inside Figma: a Q&A with our 2021 interns and new grads

Inside Figma: securing internal web apps

A Q&A with Figma’s VP of Product

30 updates: recent features and fixes in Figma

How the Figma PM team builds products and processes

Inside Figma: a Q&A with our global sales team

Keeping creativity flowing

Behind the plugin: Cards for Humanity

Introducing Figma’s New York City hub

How News UK developed a multi-brand design system

Figma's Series E

The five stages of an effective brainstorm

Collaborating and connecting in FigJam

Inside Figma: how our PM team uses FigJam

Pride 2021: Getting back out there

Embracing the mess at Config 2021

Q&A with Dantley Davis

In the file at Config 2021

Inside Maker Week: more than a hackathon

Shifting team culture at Config 2021

Q&A with Robyn Kanner

Introducing branching: space to iterate and explore freely

Coming together at Config 2021

Introducing FigJam

How Repsol rethinks the way the world interacts with energy

About Figma’s new Starter plan

Behind the feature: building multi-account

Behind the scenes of creating the official Figma kit for Tailwind UI

Completing a transit map

By the numbers: one year of remote work

Behind the feature: comments, contextually

Inside Figma: tips from the team that builds Figma

Inside Figma: a case study on strict null checks

Redesigning Dropbox’s ways of working

Meet us in the browser

Adding it all up: the math behind designing your career

Behind the feature: the making of the new Auto Layout

Bridging design and code with Variants

Behind the feature: the hidden challenges of autosave

How Kimberly-Clark brings your favorite paper products into your home

Learning and failing as a team

Reflections on Figma’s inaugural Student Fellowship

Power up your design system with Figma’s agency partners

Creating moments of connection

Building an open and inclusive design process

When fonts fall

Six integrations to help your product team collaborate in Figma

Inside Figma: my time as a new grad

The many dimensions of trust in design

Embracing the tension between code and design

On pitching and presenting

Figma’s new EMEA HQ

Making Design Within Reach for online shoppers

Creating multi-brand design systems

Inside Figma: enterprise, explained

React at 60fps: improving scrolling comments in Figma

How we use Figma templates to facilitate collaboration at Shopify

An open letter about my gap year

How work is changing at Figma

Explore the Figma Community

Inside Figma: reflections on a remote internship

Announcing Config Europe: a call for speakers

Behind the feature: shedding light on shadow spread

A deep dive on deep search

How BT, a 174-year-old company, continues to push the telecommunication industry forward

How Clearstep simplifies the experience of finding care online

How to evaluate design tools

How to get closer with your developer

Beyond mocks: co-designing journeys, diagrams, and more

The making of Maker Week

Bringing live Figma embeds to your team’s favorite tools

Finding design inspiration at home

How to pair design (and convince your boss to invest in it)

Inside Figma: the product design team’s process

Figma’s Series D round

Bridge design and development with the new Zeplin integration

Postmortem: Service disruption on April 29th, 2020

Bringing Figma to even more classrooms

The case for lightweight prototyping

How Inneract Project empowers the next generation of brown and black designers

11 activities in Figma for your classroom

Figma + Lambda School: Where the remote classroom comes together to learn

Look no further: New ways to search and provide context in Figma

Research, remotely

Building on our open platform: Design in Figma, prototype with Framer

Keeping that tight-knit feeling, at a distance

How Students Who Design set up Figma in their online classroom

How to run a remote brainstorm

Extend what’s possible with plugins for you and your team

Finding confidence in design decisions

The Dropbox guide to building creative culture

Reflections on Config, our first user conference

New ways to create, collaborate, and share more openly

Test designs early and often with the new Maze integration

Postmortem: Service disruption on January 21-22, 2020

Figma on Figma: How we built our website design system

Bringing the community together in Figma

Measuring the value of design systems

Made in Figma, 2019: Design by the numbers

"The Decade of Design”: How the last 10 years transformed design’s role in tech

Design more, resize less, with Auto Layout

Humanity at work: Gusto brings a new brand to life with Figma

Under the hood of Figma’s infrastructure: Here’s what goes into powering a web-based design tool

Opening up the data behind your design systems

Let’s create Figma’s first user conference together

Beyond multiplayer: Building community together in Figma

How Figma’s multiplayer technology works

Bringing new life to Figma’s brand

Customer journey mapping with Figma

Designing for top feature requests, like Smart Animate

An update on plugin security

How a designer makes background patterns to push her creativity

Plugin Show & Tell—Some highlights

An ode to OpenType: Fall in love with the secret world of fonts

Design critiques at Figma

How Microsoft built plugins to improve their workflow

Keeping your data in Figma safe and secure: SOC 2 Type 2, SSO, and more

Plugins to help you design with real content

How to build a plugin system on the web and also sleep well at night

Design for everyone with these accessibility-focused plugins

How to wireframe

5 utility plugins to speed up your workflow

The birth of Inter: How the new open-source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be

How to run a design sprint

Automate work. Bring in real data. Extend what’s possible with Figma Plugins.

Behind the Plugins: Jackie Chui, UX Designer @ Microsoft

Behind the Plugins: Matt DesLauriers, Generative Artist & Creative Coder

Behind the Plugins: Yitong Zhang, Product Designer @ Coinbase

Behind the Plugins: Tiffany Chen, UX Designer @ Microsoft

Behind the Plugins: Sam Mason de Caires, UX Engineer @ Cloudflare

A step-by-step guide to using Figma for retrospectives

Product design portfolio tips from a Figma recruiter

Bring Figma prototypes to life with GIFs

What’s new on DesignSystems.com: June roundup

What’s new recap: Component updates, plugins beta, and other goodies

What to expect when moving from Sketch to Figma

Plugins are coming to Figma

Kick-start your typography system in Figma

Tips for a better developer workflow in Figma

Proto GP: 5 ways to level up your prototyping workflow

Looking to improve your Figma workflow? Check out our updated user forum

Getting to the bottom of line height in Figma

GitHub takes its collaborative culture to a new level

Reintroducing DesignSystems.com

Our grid pro quo: Everything you need to know about layout grids in Figma

We refreshed Figma's UI: An inside look at our process

#FigmaTip Roundup: Spring cleaning edition

Pairing is the key to evangelizing your design system

Introducing Figma Time Travel

Now you can open links in the Figma desktop app

Dribbble scores with live design collaboration for its completely remote team

The power of Figma Drafts

Design on a deadline: How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure

Bulb shines bright with Solar as its design system

Getting started with teams in Figma Organization

Figma raises $40MM Series C round led by Sequoia

Introducing Figma Organization: Our first enterprise-grade offering

Figma's engineering values

Organize photo galleries, presentation slides and more with Smart Selection 2D

Designing an open financial system at Coinbase

State of Design Systems 2018

Deliveroo serves up fast designs for a mouth-watering delivery experience

How we built the Figma design team

Introducing the Figma Community Resources Hub

Our path to creating a precise PDF Exporter

Introducing Overlays—taking Prototyping to the next layer

Zoom streamlines the design workflow with Figma

Nominate photography for the 2018 Unsplash Awards

5 ways to structure your workflow with Pages in Figma

Creating atomic components in Figma

Using constraints & “magic numbers” to build responsive layouts in Figma

Figma year in review: 2018

Designers use Figma to bring Uber to the unbanked

Animate your Figma designs with our new Principle integration

Google’s AR Design Guidelines suffice while Apple’s fall short

Introducing Smart Selection

Figma's New Finger Tips

We made a mistake with our API Challenge, and we’re sorry

Introducing: Figma’s first API Challenge

Multiplayer, IRL

How Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent’s Design team leverages Figma’s API to empower designers

Aisle Rocket Studios, the agency behind Whirlpool, masters remote collaboration

Figma Feature Highlight: Component Overrides

Figma Feature Highlight: Sketch Import

The University of the Arts London’s Accidental Path to a Design System

The finale of Prototyping Week: Interactions

#FigmaTip Roundup 10.0

Learn how a Microsoft designer built an internal Icon Library in his spare time

With Figma’s new SVG Exports, less = more

Figma, faster 🏎

Designer Q&A: Camellia Neri’s five catalysts for creativity

Why transparent open design leads to happier clients

On the road: How two designers got rid of their hardware baggage

Master the art of design portfolios with this free online Skillshare class

Figma feature highlight: Observation Mode

How Kiwi.com handles project structure, versioning & components in Figma

Introducing: Design Dictionary from Figma

#FigmaTip Roundup 9.0

Art of Listening: One designer's foray into experiential design

Figma 3.0 (!)

How one designer motivates others to build more ethical products

A Sketch user’s perspective on switching to Figma

How one designer finds inspiration in rabble rousers like Bart Simpson

#FigmaTip Roundup 8.0

With websites, what comes first: The copy or design?

How one Figma engineer plays to her strengths: music, programming and cycling

How Virta Health uses Figma to help patients reverse type 2 diabetes

How you can design end to end on a Chromebook

5 ways to use Figma that you probably never thought of

Material Design + Figma Styles = 🔥

Figma Styles beta: A new way to apply text and layer attributes

Rust in Production at Figma

Introducing: Figma to React

Want Figma API inspiration? Here's 8 community powered projects

5 steps to nailing your portfolio presentation in design interviews

FigmaTip Roundup 7.0

How Figma helped Sounds app reach 150k likes on Facebook

Desperately seeking squircles

Introducing: Figma’s Platform

Now you can name and annotate your Figma Version History

How to hit the road as a UI/UX digital nomad

Component architecture in Figma

Figma prototyping: now with transitions

With love, from Figma: @mentions and file sorting

Web design without a web designer? Xfive turns to Figma.

FigmaTip Roundup 6.0

Figma raises $25MM Series B

Figma announces design system meetups in 6 cities around the world

Figma Quality Week: Inside our bug bashing party

#FigmaTip Roundup 5.0

How to convince your team to switch to Figma

How Figma Transformed This Berkeley Design Class

18 designers predict UI/UX trends for 2018

Stitch Fix accelerates design sprints by collaborating in Figma

#FigmaTip Roundup 4.0

More time, more money: How Figma accelerates agency workflows

How to build your design system in Figma

Advanced Project Permissions for design systems

Introducing DesignSystems.com

5 international cities with up-and-coming UI/UX design communities

Introducing: Figma Pages

10 UI/UX Design Internships Figma Users Swear By

Figma Now Integrates with Zeplin

Why Professors at Stanford and UC Berkeley Use Figma to Teach Design

How to throw a design-friendly hackathon

ICYMI: An Overview of Figma’s Feature Release Week

FigmaTip Roundup 2.0

Discover Hidden Functionalities with #FigmaTip Roundup 1.0

This Twitter storm shows design systems are still up for debate

Introducing Figma’s Live Embed Kit

Team Library 1.0

Introducing Live Embed of Figma designs in Trello & Jira Software

Figma + Dropbox Paper

Happy Emoji Release Day at Figma 🎉

Figma 2.0: Now with Prototyping and Developer Handoff

Photo Filters Come To Figma

Introducing BrowserView for Electron

Figma now has Guides

Meet the design pioneers taking on the venture world

New design conference Vectors sold out in 2 days for a great reason

WebAssembly cut Figma's load time by 3x

How One Pivotal Designer Escaped the Export-upload Abyss

5 essential ways to use design constraints

How Braintree Cut Time Spent on Design Critiques by 50%

Reflecting on Figma’s First Year

Introducing two-factor authentication for Figma

Are hackathons the answer to the tech designer shortage?

This website shows that to find talented female designers, you just need to look

Introducing Figma Mirror for Android

New faces at the Figma helm

5 books that shaped the design approach of Airbnb’s Jon Gold

An alternative approach to rate limiting

Figma’s new icon

Advice on becoming a virtual reality designer from Facebook’s VR team

Deciding whether to learn code wasn’t always such a weird rite of passage

The 6 design trends John Maeda predicted in his state of the union

Did Snapchat succeed because of its controversial UI?

Realtime Editing of Ordered Sequences

Can designers make a political difference?

Team Libraries in Figma

Components in Figma

Delete and Heal for Vector Networks

Debugging Data Corruption with Emscripten

Multiplayer Editing in Figma

Introducing Figma’s Integration with Framer

How to do content design / UX writing in Figma

Introducing Vector Networks

From furniture to screens

Grid Systems for Screen Design

Slack From the Start

Building a professional design tool on the web

Design: Meet the Internet