The Best of figmadesign
10+ most popular figmadesign articles, as voted by our community.
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The future of design systems is automated
Plugins, widgets, and tooling — the second edition of our series on the future of design systems.
Meet the maker: Marcin Wichary
We talk with people about what makes them a maker. Here, a design manager tells us about his latest project, a book covering 150 years of keyboard design.
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 Leadership
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 Visual Design
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 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.
The birth of Inter
How the new open source typeface used by GitHub and Mozilla came to be
Illustrating in Figma with Pablo, Bonnie Kate and Justin
I'm attending Figma Art & Illustration w/ Illustrating in Figma with Pablo, Bonnie Kate and Justin on Jan 28, 2021
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