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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
20+ FigJam cursor-chat trigger words and 5 secret emotes
Spice up your FigJam communication game
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FigJam
✂ 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
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Composability
Properties
How to rescue your Figma file from the depths of hell and live to tell the tale
Let's get your file memory back.
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File memory
Layer architecture
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