Alice Packard | Blog

Organize your variables in 3 levels of collections

alt title: how to make sense of variable collections in Figma

Teaching "Intro to graphic design" at American University, Fall 2023

Config 2023 Reflections

How the new features and enhancements affect my past blog posts

I have beef with status emojis in component library Page names

The concept is useful, but I have beef with the execution.

Edit the width of nested components using zero-frames as resizers

A reliable workaround until Figma gives us min and max width controls

20+ FigJam cursor-chat trigger words and 5 secret emotes

Spice up your FigJam communication game

✂ Placeholders are for people who know trying to predict the future is a losing game

reject the allure of the crystal ball, embrace not knowing, and know peace

How to rescue your Figma file from the depths of hell and live to tell the tale

Let's get your file memory back.

The 5 Auto Layout stumbling blocks you need to understand to master this feature once and for all.

Because "just practice" and "learn flexbox" aren't good enough.

How to customize the size of Figma embed iframes

For when the default 800x450 just doesn't cut it