Design | Experience
How To Clean Up A Messy Figma File. How to keep your Figma designs clean — with clever ideas for neat setup and better maintenance (check contributors and guides below ↓)
✅ Use sections (Shift+S) to separate happy path from edge cases.
✅ Use “/” in your naming conventions, e.g. Button / Primary.
✅ Use blank pages “-“, “***”, “___” … Read the rest
How To Optimize Large and Slow Figma Files, a practical case study by Doctolib on how they reduced heavy Figma files by 83% — with private nested components, auto-layout, helper components and properties standardization. Kindly shared by Jérôme Benoit and shared by Jackie Torizani.
If you run into heavy and slow files, cascade your libraries down. Split your library files … Read the rest
Top 22 AI-Powered Figma Plugins 👇
A transformative toolkit designed to amplify the capabilities of designers. This curated collection of plugins leverages artificial intelligence to redefine the creative process, enabling designers to work smarter and more intuitively. Dive into a world where automation meets innovation, streamlining tasks and unlocking unprecedented efficiencies.
All these plugins have free plans and you can … Read the rest
Journey maps help us better understand how users interact with our product. We can use them to identify unnecessary complexity but also opportunities in the user experience. The Journey Map Figma template by Notably makes it easy to create journey maps for ideation. It includes an example and an empty journey map to create your own.
If you’re new … Read the rest
If you and your team want to capture and communicate thoughts and design changes directly in your Figma files, the File Management UI Library might be just what you’ve been looking for. Created by the Experience team at Deliveroo, it includes file management goodies that help you bring more context to your designs. Inside the library, you’ll find banners to separate flows … Read the rest
Preparing a design for developer handoff is usually a time-consuming task. Luckily, there are some Figma plugins out there to speed things up. One of them is EightShapes Specs. The plugin automatically produces page and component design specifications of selected components, instances, and frames for you. This not only comes in handy for design-dev handoffs but also for auditing … Read the rest