Figma News | Sep 06, 2024
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Company name: Figma
Company website: figma.com
Company overview: 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.
Latest Updates
- UXtweak integrates seamlessly with Figma, offering detailed analytics and easy prototype testing.
- Figma launched UI3 updates including inline display for constraints and blend modes based on user feedback.
- Webflow built a translation engine that automatically converts Figma designs into Webflow websites.
- Figma now allows users in Enterprise organizations to publish libraries to a workspace.
- Figma announced 'Figma Slides' with features like auto layout and style settings, but its high cost of ¥2,250 per full sheet per month may limit its adoption for corporate document creation.
- At Config 2024, Figma rolled out a fresh new user interface design with fantastic new features and hidden gems.
- On August 20th, Coda will launch a new feature that syncs Figma Variables, enhancing collaboration between designers and developers.
- Figma launched Figma Slides at Config 2024, a project that started during Maker Week in 2022.
- Figma has added new reports including '5 Key Takeaways from Customers Using Dev Mode' and 'Anticipation, Experimentation and AI: Design Trend Report'.
- Figma has overhauled its entire visual identity, including a new typeface, as it expands to include tools for all product builders.
- Figma has added 450 new Google Fonts to its platform, accessible via the font picker dropdown.
- Figma ranked #12 in the Forbes Cloud 100 for 2024.
- Figma released a Chrome extension that converts any webpage into React code or an editable Figma design on September 1, 2024.
- Figma has added new roles including Equity Operations Manager, Design Program Manager, Systems, AI Researcher - PhD Intern (2025), and Director, Sales - LATAM.
- DMM.com uses Figma and Figjam for pair and mob design to maintain high productivity and team learning in a fully remote setup.
- On 2024-08-29, Figma rolled back its AI features.
- On 29 August 2024, Figma will be featured in The Arena 2024 competition with expert analysis from Pablo Stanley and Marian Pedroza.
- Figma has added new repositories including 'code-snippet-editor-plugin' and 'llvm-project' on GitHub.
- Figma has updated its color palette guide, adding new colors such as Slate Gray, Orchid, and Neon Pink, while removing others like Light Yellow and Neon Blue.
- Figma released 10 updates to Figma Slides in 10 days based on user feedback.
- Justin Vaillancourt announced a new Figma plugin to visually align layers by considering visual weight.
- Crunchyroll saved 146 hours per project by switching from Zeplin to Figma's Dev Mode, streamlining their product development process.
- Dylan Field, Figma's CEO, emphasized the importance of building a tool truly native to the web rather than just porting existing solutions.
- Figma will be hosting 'Figma Unbound: Hands-on from the Experts' on August 22, 2024, at Dialexa in Dallas, TX.
- Figma's Pro plans now allow users to transfer projects to clients while keeping a copy.
- Figma is currently hiring a Compensation Partner in the United States.
- Kristina Sands left Figma as Director of Communications in the San Francisco Bay Area to join Udemy as Director of Internal Communications.
- Figma is currently hiring for the position of Director, Internal Audit in the United States.
- Figma's Compute team successfully completed a complex migration to Kubernetes in less than 12 months.
- Figma introduced a redesigned UI called UI3, available in limited beta, which simplifies the design experience and adds new AI capabilities.
- Figma migrated from AWS ECS to AWS Kubernetes (EKS) to reduce complexity and leverage the broader open-source ecosystem, as explained by software engineering manager Ian VonSeggern.
- Joel Miller, a product designer at Figma, detailed improvements in UI3 including the return of pixel values in Auto Layout resize controls and more efficient constraints.
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