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Figma

🌎 figma.com

Figma is a leading collaborative design tool based in San Francisco, California, that enables teams to design, prototype, and gather feedback on products in a single platform. It aims to make design accessible to everyone and offers a suite of products including Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides, facilitating collaboration among designers, developers, and product managers.

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Figma - Latest News and Updates

• Figma and Google are expanding their free offering to include Google Workspace districts in the US, UK, and Japan.
• Figma now offers a free plugin called Product Market Font by Morisawa Fonts, which allows users to convert and restore text paths in SVG format, supporting vertical typography for designs like reels.
• Figma introduced a Journal feature to help designers take notes and link to specific frames in their files.
• Figma is expanding its Education program globally in 2025, focusing on India, Brazil, Singapore, and Australia, and is hiring a manager to lead this international effort.
• Figma has released a major update that includes native support for ratios, simplifying many tasks for users.

• Figma announced new diagramming features for FigJam, including a shapes sidebar, more developer shapes, independent stroke color, moveable connector labels, and a recents section.
• Friends of Figma, Portugal will host a livestream on February 13 to explore Salesforce's Lightning design system using Figma.
• Some designers criticize Figma for being a web-based app that lacks native platform features and for turning designers into 'pixel monkeys' by enforcing design systems.

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