📢 Attn: lots of open roles across design Figma 🥳

Apply 👉 figma.com/careers/#job-o…

FigJam Mgr (HM jenny)
Figma Editor Mgr (HM Marcin Wichary)
DevMode IC (HM Jonas Downey)
Search IC (HM Micah Sivitz)
Research IC (HM Julia K)
UXW Billing IC (HM Chris Baty)
Brand IC (HM Jess S)

Multi-edit is finally here; We're drawing multiple bounding boxes for selections across frames!

Sounds simple, right?

Much to our delight, the prototyping team just fixed a bunch of squeaky stairs, and I wanted to share some of my favorites.

First up, a fresher fit for our inline preview. We slapped on device frames to give your prototypes an even more realistic experience inside the editor.

Annotations in Dev Mode is now live!

As a Figma designer, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with marking up a file. Today, I’m writing about how this feature came to be — for both design and dev.

Scroll 🧵 and/or read the blog: bit.ly/3Sdifly

psst

trash baby is now on the app store

apps.apple.com/us/app/trash-b…

The Dev Mode beta is now officially two months old! 🎂

Since we launched, we’ve completed over 200 fast follows - features, improvements, and fixes - thanks to your feedback.

Dig into the biggest updates below 👇

I’m on the Threads thing because apparently 3 Twitters still wasn’t enough Twitters

threads.net/@jonasd

When I was at Twitter, the strategy was: improve and enhance the core product, while also exploring new bets (Circle, Communities, longform, video.) This was showing growth!

Musk’s strategy seems to be:
- break what already worked
- charge for basic functions
- piss everyone off

A daily limit on reading tweets sounds like a feature, not a bug

Re-upping a post I wrote two years ago about designing with code.

In short: there are lots of different ways to design software, they‘re all valid, and teams can be highly effective regardless of any specific toolset. Do what works best for you.

jonas.do/writing/2021-1…

The lightbulb moment riso poster for all 8500 playbooks at config

Great summary of what’s new:

I'm really excited about our new Figma feature, variables. So, I built a new plugin I call 'Find Variables' to help you find where they're being used across your design. It will be free and open source once it's published to Figma community!

Config was such a needed massive burst of energy and positivity. The design community is kind and cool as hell.

I work on Variables as a product designer! Come find me outside the keynote main hall throughout Day 2 to say hi and AMA! #Config2023 #config23 #confits2023

Dang! Figma 's new variables and advanced prototyping are so freaking awesome 🎉! Look what I can make with only 1 frame, 2 components. Goodbye noodles! My next wish is animation responses to when changing variables 🙏

on today's releases, all i can think of is melanie hoff's 'always already programming'

gist.github.com/melaniehoff/95…

Ok Figma for VSCode is literally amazing…

Phew! We launched a ton of huge things today, thanks to the hard work of so many amazing folks at Figma. Shout out to our design fam, who sorted out countless gnarly problems: @joeltalksdesign Niko Oscar Nilsson chia amisola Peter Reaper-Reynolds Shana Hu Jackie Chui Ryhan

Today is a big day! Dev Mode launches in Figma. It's the culmination of an ~18-month journey, filled with countless riffs, prototypes, reviews, PRDs, and PM mocks. Here's my story of how we got here. 🧵