My Obra Icons project has always been available from the website, but now you can also use the Figma plugin. Earlier this week, we also released a package for React. Any feedback is welcome!
Obra icons: Figma plugin
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Category Archives: figma
ShapeShifter plugin for Figma
- Posted in figma figma-plugins
Fresh from the plugin press, this plugin by Vijay Verma provides some shortcuts to easily access important vector tools In Figma. This can help as a bit of a bandaid, since Figma’s UI team inexplicably decided to hide the vector tools behind extra clicks in UI3.
Deep thoughts on Figma’s AI features: where do we go from here?
At Config, I was particularly looking forward to what kind of AI features Figma would announce after acquiring Diagram. This blog is a deep thought piece and also a piece of criticism thinking through those features. It’s also a reflection of what design app features that venture into the realm of creation mean for a […]
Config 2024
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Last week, after Config, I started writing this huge blog post, with all the different subjects that were going through my head. Too many to name, really. If I had over word for the conference, for me personally, it would be overwhelming. To make it more managable to publish my thoughts, a friend suggested to […]
Conference season
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I like June. There is always a lot of tech news: this week it was WWDC. Google I/O has been over for a few weeks and many videos were posted online. CSS day has passed, they put their videos on YouTube every week. And at the end of the month it is time for the […]
How to build zero to one inside a company
This video really spoke to me. Mihika’s product management style reminds me of how I work, a lot! I was nodding in agreement all the way. Must-watch if you are involved in product decisions in any way.
Feedback 🤝 Feedback
- Posted in development figma figma-plugins screenshot-to-layout
I am looking for people who want to test drive the new Screenshot to Layout plugin for Figma. I am specifically looking for people who want to jump on a short call, share their screen and share their experience. It would be awesome to do some usability testing after all these months of work. If […]
Type variables in Figma – variable font workaround
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Having been released this week, type variables are the new hotness in Figma. If you want to know the details I recommend this excellent post by Joey Banks. While his post is a general overview, this blog post is more about solving a specific niche issue: the design system I work on uses variable fonts, […]
Screenshot to Layout released for free
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You can use my Figma plugin Screenshot to Layout to generate editable text from a screenshot. Select an image in Figma, run the plugin command “Process image”, and then see a Figma layout appear with editable text. You can see how it works in this video: This plugin is extremely useful to quickly start working […]
Bootstrapping update (2)
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Today I want to talk about why it’s probably not that interesting to release Screenshot to Layout to the public, even though I put a lot of effort into it in the month of July. I am not saying I won’t ever release it, but it needs to be part of a bigger plan. In […]