The Best of figmadesign
10+ most popular figmadesign articles, as voted by our community.
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figmadesign on Design
"The Decade of Design”: How 10 years transformed design’s role in tech
The tech industry, which long exalted the engineer, has finally begun to appreciate the designer too.
figmadesign on Notion
How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure
The story of Notion’s last minute pivot and its epic comeback.
figmadesign on Software Engineering
The growing pains of database architecture
How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases
figmadesign on Thinking
John Maeda on Creativity, AI, and the Human Pursuit of Uphill Thinking
John Maeda shares takeaways from this year’s Design In Tech Report, and why we should embrace uphill thinking in a world optimized for shortcuts.
figmadesign on Visual Design
How Figma draws inspiration from the gaming world
The parallels between Figma's technical challenges and those in the gaming world
The future of design systems is complicated
We talked to several industry experts about how they’re managing the future of design systems—from the future of tooling to automation to accessibility.
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Design critiques at Figma
Learn 6 unique methods for design critique used by the Figma design team, along with some tips and best practices for running them effectively.
How Pinterest’s design systems team measures adoption
The Gestalt team tells us how they used Figma’s REST API to create FigStats, a dashboard for visualizing component usage.
The birth of Inter
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
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