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Design tools are not just there to let you 'do your job'.
Design tools should allow you to venture into the unknown and uncover ideas you didn't even know you could have.
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With sections in @figma you can now create prototype connections to an entire "section" of your app!
We will remember which frame was last visited in that section and re-open that one.
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A small gift from the @figma prototyping team this holiday season! 🎁💝
You can now create interactions from multiple selected objects at once. Works for editing existing interactions, too!
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BIG launch today for Prototyping in @figma: State management!
Interactive components, scrolling frames, and videos now all memorize their last visited state, and you get more control over when the state is shared or when it should be reset.
Let's dig in.
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6 years ago today, I walked into this tiny @figma office!
Did *not* know what I was in for! ❤️
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Launch dayyyyy! 🔥🚀
We sketched out first ideas for interactive components 3.5 years ago and I'm SO excited that it's now in all of your hands! Can't wait to see what y'all build!
Check out the blog post for the deets and what else we shipped today!
bit.ly/PrototypingUpdates
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Unbelievable. I’ve been at @figma for SEVEN years today!
❤️7️⃣
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It's been 4 years @figma for me! 🤯
Kinda wild looking back, cause it feels like just a few weeks ago that little Niko joined as an intern.
Excited for the next 4!
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I have not had a job for longer than 6 months before joining @figmadesign. And today @mwichary organized a surprise flash-mob during our 1:1 for my 2 year Figmaversary.
I'm speechless. ♥️
Thanks so much to everyone making this work so much freakin fun!
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Multi-edit is finally here; We're drawing multiple bounding boxes for selections across frames!
Sounds simple, right?
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Flying under the UI3 radar—a huge redesign of our prototyping panel, now featuring a 2 column layout for multiple actions. Huge props to @maxvoltar and Moe!!
👏👏👏 — #Config2024
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To everyone who can relate to this…
Can you respond here or DM me with why Prototyping in Figma makes you feel this way?
Tbh, I share this feeling myself from time to time, but I’m confident it doesn’t have to be this way!
Hearing from y’all helps so much! ❤️
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Ohh. Someone just received their passport with a valid visa in it!
Moving back to SF this Fall! 😳🤯
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Hey, we built a thing for you to play with. :)
Waving your hands won’t bring that idea to life. Just make it with #smartanimate, now available in Figma prototypes.
Check out @nikolasklein’s article on what it’s like to design for a highly requested feature: bit.ly/2OnOGym
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The last week @figma has been a wild ride. The community's initial reaction has been understandably heavy; It was hard to read through all the comments, not gonna lie.
But something exciting has happened…
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Beginning of this month was my 3 year anniversary at @figmadesign…
🤯
Feels incredibly surreal.
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little friday treat: if you create noodles via @figma's "Add interactions" feature, they now have a little ✨ shimmer ✨ - don't worry it disappears once you're done.
figma.com/release-notes/?tit…
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5 min wireframe: Can't wait for a video editor that works like this; each block can have its own prompt and can be configured via a chat or other direct manipulation ideas (e.g., pick a style or a camera through a visual interface).
Basically like @visualelectric for videos.
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.
Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions.
openai.com/sora
Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy Tokyo city is bustling. The camera moves through the bustling city street, following several people enjoying the beautiful snowy weather and shopping at nearby stalls. Gorgeous sakura petals are flying through the wind along with snowflakes.”
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> be you
> work in figma sites but want the power of make
> see this tweet and realize code now belongs; make a mess, rev, refine
> start to use code layers
> actually finish your site
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Friends don’t let friends paste screenshots! ☝️
🚀 Copy Design from @figma Make is out! 🚀
Watch Holly demo how you can get design layers out of Make — to riff, jam and collaborate! — This is just the start!
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I'm 99% sure there was a dreamy mockup from when we launched Community profiles that said figma.com/@apple in a URL bar! And we were like: "We can dream, right?"
Welcome, welcome! Glad to have you here!
I’ve got the biggest #WWDC23 drop
APPLE DESIGN KITS FOR FIGMAAAAAAA
figma.com/community/file/124…
LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@figma
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Floored by all the feedback I received after yesterday's talk about Collaborative Creativity! Thank you so much!!!
♥️
Quick recap below. The talk was recorded and will be published in a month and here are all the slides: figma.com/community/file/966…
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We now open the frame to the scrolling state that it was left off in! Just as real apps would!
Feels so good:
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Hey everyone! @skuwamoto and I would love to talk with a few of you about your experience building pasta prototypes in @figmadesign. 🍝
If you've built one recently and you could talk us through what you've built—you'd be perfect!
Sign up here:
➡️ forms.gle/1bj49uKS6MMEvj6QA ⬅️
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Update to on-canvas dragging: We are not nesting anything into anything anymore.
By default, objects will only nest into fitting frames.
Want to put a big object into a smaller frame?
→ Hold ⌘ while dragging
Want an object to *not* nest?
→ Hold ␣ while dragging
Another detail, maybe one of the most impactful ones outside of Auto Layout itself. Hold the space bar to avoid nesting.
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Oh, btw. You can install @figmadesign plugins from your phone, too.
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It's been 5 (!!) years at @figma since last Sunday and today I got a bunch of lovely portraits in a team greeting card.
I guess working for that time primarily on prototyping features gives you a certain brand, lol. 🍝❤️
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I've been working on a plugin to bring @Shopify's design system closer to the designer. It takes the layer names from Sketch to automatically search through Polaris. Turns out it might be helpful for developers too.
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The fastest way to get simple arrows in @figmadesign. cc/ @rsms
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General reminder that if you ever have @figma prototypes like this — I’d LOVE to see them. (Ideally w/ like a loom in a DM.)
Understanding what they do is the best way for us to find ways to make this less cumbersome. ❤️
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Seeing Yerba Buena Park being transformed for @figma commons pre-party tomorrow is so lovely! 🥰
#Config2024
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I signed a lease yesterday and am moving into my first own apartment today! 🥳
Plz, send me your favorite home furnishing stores or inspiration sites. I basically need *checks notes* … everything.
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"We want to make it easy for anyone to design and build digital products on a single multiplayer canvas—from start to finish, idea to production."
Chapter 2 of @figma — Let's gooo!
After an intense 15 months of review, today Adobe and Figma have decided to end our pending merger, as we no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of the deal.
figma.com/blog/figma-adobe-a…
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And responsive viewer won't just work in Dev Mode! It works in the prototype viewer and on mobile, too!
↔️↔️↔️
Even more so: You'll be able to switch device frames to make sure it looks correct on the devices you'll send it to. Huge props to Sakura, Kelsey, and Dennis! 👏
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It's happening!!1 🔥
Don't forget to sign up!
Interactive components is now live in beta!
Prototyping is about to get a lot more efficient. Create reusable, shareable interactive elements for your design systems and prototypes.
Sign up for early access ⤵️
forms.gle/tAxqMQNXuNU4NYmj9
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first time at the sea ranch
ALT Condominium 1 at Sea Ranch
ALT Entrance to the sea ranch lodge
ALT The sea ranch calendar
ALT Lodge at sea ranch at night time
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Prototyping doesn’t have to be this “last step” of the process anymore!
In this article @heyitsgarrett and I share what it means to establish “prototyping cultures” in your companies and why they matter!
figma.com/blog/why-cultivati…
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Should [PMs/Designers/Engineers] × [pm/design/code]?
Lol I don’t care - just make cool things
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Quick @figmadesign FYI: With Variants we are also extending what overrides are preserved when swapping instances or changing variants.
But the rules for variant changes are a bit stricter. I’ll explain in the thread, but you can also read up upon it here: help.figma.com/hc/en-us/arti…
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I applied to Figma in fall 2017 and joined as an intern in March 2018, because I liked the override behavior of components…
Did I know what I was getting myself into?
Most definitely not. 🤯
Beyond excited to share that @figmadesign has closed a $200M Series E funding round led by Durable Capital! Morgan Stanley’s Counterpoint Global is also participating along with other new and existing investors. (1/5)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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The only thing you have to do is to:
1. Use sections to organize your frames (You can use nested sections, too!)
2. Create a prototype connection to that section…
… and we'll do the rest for you.
We hope that makes realistic stateful prototyping much faster for y'all. ❤️
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I can’t wait for #ConfigEurope this Thursday! Will be speaking w/ @kelseymwhelan about “Failing together” and moderating through the day w/ @swissbeatz!
Also, here is my name tag:
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And don't be fooled. #config2023 is going to be big, like big big for Prototyping.
Sign up or get your tickets for SF here: config.figma.com
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We've made some updates to component props and variables @figma!
You can now bind variables to component props - and we made binding and creating properties and vars more consistent!
Check out @dotdude's little #figmatip video: piped.video/watch?v=Z76T5ZsC…
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Yay, yay—Shipping day! 🥳
Easily exploring, comparing, and communicating different versions of an idea is key to finding the right solution in your web of ideas.
We really hope this will help you do exactly that!
Today we're launching three new ways to compare, test, and present interactive ideas in Figma.✨
→Create multiple flows in a single page
→Add context with flow names and descriptions
→Share flows with a single link for easy viewing
Learn more: help.figma.com/hc/en-us/arti…
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Videos in @figma for prototyping is out for everyone now!
Try it out and let me know what improvements or functionalities you’d love to see!
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look at that resize cursor!!! 👀👀👀
Here is the article: figma.com/blog/behind-the-fe…
I do not know how I reposted just that image, lol
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Say hello to our new website for our project "Artifacts". @chlabacher made it happen over the last weekend! 🤯
Artifacts is a human-centered framework for growing ideas and was our thesis last year w/ @floludwig94.
Let us know what you think! 👉 artifacts.fyi
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Always wanted to do one of those useless separations between UI and UX, so here we go.
Also, I can’t find the source tweet! If you know where it is, please lmk.
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Really good definition of 'Design' in general. This is definitely not limited to people with 'Designer' in their job title. But to anyone and any group who 'creates'. The more diverse the set of people contributing, the better.
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What if we didn’t announce anything today and #Config2024 was just a ruse to get y'all to party together??
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The resize cursor is nice, but also check out all. the. other. things. we shipped today.
I had to zoom out to take this screenshot from our release notes! figma.com/release-notes/?tit…
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Been an honor to work on Make Protoype for @figma with this wonderful team!
#Config2024
You design products, not just screens. When you create frames in @figma, you already know how they fit together — which buttons users can press & what happens when they do. Let's talk about the new "Make prototype" feature, which uses AI to bring those static frames to life. 🧵
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wtf is a prototype
loved jamming w/ holly and @ridd_design about … prototyping (yet again and not the last time!)
Holly Li and @nikolasklein go deep into the future of prototyping in this week's episode
✧ Rethinking what "high fidelity" means
✧ How Figma Make fits into your workflow
✧ The use cases they're most fascinated by
It's high energy, insightful, and should spark a ton of ideas 👇
piped.video/watch?v=6wFMIijM…
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We’re thinking of adding “Set Mode” as an action to @figma prototyping!
What could you imagine using it for?
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I wrote a thing about how the setup of your team can relate to the needed maturity of your Design System. I'm super open for feedback on this!
designsystems.com/the-spectr…
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I’m so excited to join the @figmadesign team for a couple of months at the beginning of March!
🤯🎉
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It’s kinda sad that software “cover art” is not a thing anymore.
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Hey, we’ve heard a couple of times now that people would love to have linear easing in @figmadesign.
I’d love to better understand examples and setups in Figma in which you’d be using this. My DMs are open so please share, if you have an example!
RT’s appreciated :)
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I still can't believe that figma.com/@apple is a real URL. 😭❤️
And look at all that fresh content!
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I got to talk with @_adamwiggins_ and @mmcgrana about Collaborative Creativity on their podcast Metamuse! We were talking about how iterating together openly can lead to more innovative and inclusive ways of working together. Check it out! 1/n
Metamuse 23 // Collaborative creativity
museapp.com/podcast/23-colla…
With @nikolasklein of @figmadesign
• “my idea” vs “our idea”
• Sea shanty TikTok
• The myth of the eureka moment
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This is daunting, yet incredibly exciting and very honoring! I'll be giving a talk in September at @designmattersdk in Copenhagen. 🤯
If you're intrigued by the intro below, reach out and let's chat!
👉 designmatters.io
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Internally, your reactions have turned into a driver for motivation. We hear you and we believe that you're coming from a place of love and trust. Trust that is now on the line as acquisitions don't always go well.
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Together with this article, we also decided to publish a snapshot of the design system we use internally at @figmadesign. This is a non-retouched copy of the current state. Don't expect it to be updated frequently :)
figma.com/file/Gj9iMcTbFbHrF…
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It's now fixed! No need to be sad anymore.
From today on interactive components and scrollable frames will share their state by default when they match.
The setup above now JustWorks™:
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I don’t even know what to say. What a week! 🥹❤️
We truly can’t wait to see what you’ll build in Figma now.
#Config2023
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one of us graduated the other two stayed the same
(also cameo from the guy who didn’t want to drive us to the keyboard store)
@jenny_wen $FIG
one of us graduated, one of us became a PM, one of us added four new little ones to their family
@nikolasklein #Config2025
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Big upgrade to videos in Figma Prototyping today!!
When we ship a v1, we often plan a follow-up w/ some smaller improvements, but this ended up being much bigger; 100MB limit, same-frame interactions, video triggers, and more…
Huge congrats to @hotemogf and @jediahkatz! 🔥🎥
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 🧵
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