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How to streamline your design system workflow in Figma
April 8, 2025
By Luis Ouriach
If you’ve ever stared down a blank Figma file while building a new design system, never fear: These new features and plugins will turn that mountain of work into an afternoon task.
Working Well
Product updates
Figma Design
Design systems
Plugins & tooling
Tips & inspiration
Save time on building decks—without sacrificing design
February 26, 2025
By Jenny Xie
From extensive image libraries to design cleanup, plugins for Slides are here to help you prepare and polish your presentation.
Inside Figma
Figma Slides
Plugins & tooling
Product updates
A year with Dev Mode: 10 lessons from an engineering manager
August 21, 2024
By Laurent Thiebault
After integrating Dev Mode into our design system workflow, I’ve gathered several insights to help teams navigate this powerful tool. Here are my top takeaways.
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Design systems
Engineering
Plugins & tooling
Productivity
Tips & inspiration
Collaboration
Dev Mode
How Crunchyroll clarified confusing workflows with Dev Mode
August 20, 2024
By Jenny Xie
The anime streaming service supports 15 platforms, from the web browser to game consoles, and is available in 12 languages—all of which spell complexity for the design team. Here’s how they deliver a consistent experience across touchpoints.
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Design systems
Design
UI/UX
Plugins & tooling
Quality & performance
Profiles & interviews
Collaboration
Engineering
Dev Mode
Codegen plugins (and other tips) for automating design to code
April 11, 2024
By Figma
Dev Mode helps you go from design to code faster. We’ve curated some of our top codegen plugins and tips to help you get the most out of your workflow.
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Engineering
Plugins & tooling
Behind the feature: Inline device frames
February 27, 2024
By Chia Amisola, Jediah Katz
We’re making it easier for you to bring your designs to life across mobile, tablet, and watch interfaces with a series of prototyping updates.
Inside Figma
Prototyping
Behind the scenes
Product updates
Design
Engineering
Plugins & tooling
UI/UX
Figma Design
Top 10 things we shipped this year
December 7, 2023
By Jenny Xie
From the Handoff Hero to the Scroll-Stopper, we crown our favorite updates among the quality-of-life improvements and spotlight-stealing features rolled out in 2023.
Inside Figma
Product updates
Design
Quality & performance
Plugins & tooling
Engineering
AI
Collaboration
Come together: A multiplayer guide to great meetings
December 7, 2023
By Aaron Britt
Take meetings from “meh” to magical. Here’s how facilitators and participants can co-create a work session for the books.
Working Well
Brainstorming
Meetings
Leadership
Tips & inspiration
Collaboration
AI
Plugins & tooling
Three Creator Fund projects to know and love
November 8, 2023
By Jenny Xie
Our grant program empowers the community to make free resources for all. From a kit for building immersive environments, to a design-to-code plugin, to a text animator, these tools have helped nearly a million people create in Figma.
Inside Figma
Behind the scenes
Collaboration
Config
Design
Plugins & tooling
Productivity
Profiles & interviews
Tips & inspiration
Typography
UI/UX
Prototyping
Creating coherence: How Spotify’s design system goes beyond platforms
August 31, 2023
By Juli Sombat
Design Manager Juli Sombat sheds light on how a need for more cohesion led Spotify’s design systems team to take a cross-platform approach to components.
Maker Stories
Design systems
Thought leadership
Product updates
Plugins & tooling
Design
The future of design systems is semantic
July 27, 2023
By Carly Ayres
Variables, one of Figma’s newest features, help you streamline designs and connect more closely to code, but what do they tell us about larger shifts in the industry? We dig into what they might signal for the future of design systems.
Insights
Design systems
Thought leadership
Product updates
Plugins & tooling
Design
The future of design systems is accessible
May 9, 2023
By Carly Ayres
In the third part of our series, we talk to design system and accessibility experts about making inclusive systems a top priority. Previously, we covered complexity and automation.
Insights
Design systems
Design
Plugins & tooling
Accessibility
AI