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Prevent icons from cracking when outlining strokes
there's two different workarounds!
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Icons
Use branches to keep file memory low
It turns out layers and large variant sets aren't the only things eating up file memeory
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Branches
File memory
3 reasons to use variables for validation styling (instead of variants)
reduce memory usage, improve component usability, and a third thing!
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Variables
Tutorial: build WORKING radio buttons, tabs, pagination, and breadcrumb sets in your Figma library
A workaround for managing prototype-ready materials in your library
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Prototyping
Libraries
Should library components come with prototyping interactions? Only sometimes...
Checkboxes, yes. Radios, no.
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Libraries
Prototyping
Organize your variables in 3 levels of collections
alt title: how to make sense of variable collections in Figma
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Naming things
Variables
Teaching "Intro to graphic design" at American University, Fall 2023
wish me luck!
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Config 2023 Reflections
How the new features and enhancements affect my past blog posts
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Dev mode
Variables
Auto layout
I have beef with status emojis in component library Page names
The concept is useful, but I have beef with the execution.
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Naming things
Libraries
Edit the width of nested components using zero-frames as resizers
Here's a hint: space between is an overrideable attribute...
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Workarounds
Auto layout
Layer architecture
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