Prepare for takeoff. ✈️ Flight simulator is now available globally on web to all users. goo.gle/4fBYnWO
We've recently added many our most powerful professional desktop features to web. Elevation profiles, new import types, but there's always been one other feature you've been asking us to add to the web version of Google Earth, just for fun...
Where will you fly? Share your best maneuvers, views, and flyovers with us!
Imagine a world where you could copy/paste websites into editable Figma layers (jk you don’t have to imagine you can do this now with our Chrome extension)
@SlackHQ really bad regression where multiple video attachments show up vertically stacked instead of side by side regardless of screen width. makes posts take up wayyy too much space.
@SlackHQ another big regression: when you edit a post that has a link to an existing post, it just straight up removes the unfurling of the link without asking
Some news: I'm joining @figma to work on AI and design systems.
The work I've been doing on the outside is now the inside work. Still a little surreal, mostly just excited to get to work!
ALT Together, we mourn design—killed, according to X, approximately 847 times this year alone.
And yet, no matter how many times we declare design is dead, it is alive.
Design is everywhere, quietly thriving in the clarity of the subway map when you fear you have missed your stop, in the legibility of the dinner menu even when you aren't sure if sorrel is a vegetable or a new pasta shape, and in the dopamine-releasing notification that a meeting has been cancelled.
Design doesn't die. It is not a trend to be disrupted or a technology to be replaced. It's the difference between caring about how something makes you feel, not just if it works.
So here's to design—endlessly declared gone, endlessly proving everyone wrong.
"Design vs code" is a false dichotomy.
What we're working towards at Figma: freeform design AND prototyping with code AND shipping to production
... all in one connected, collaborative and visual first platform.
Figma Make, now on your local code
In limited beta starting today, you can visually edit and ship changes by connecting Make to your codebase
At Figma, we use our products to design in every way: design layers, prototypes, and now, production code
Very excited about @figma Make working directly with your codebase! This has unlocked a lot for us internally already, and there's more to come :)
Props to so many designers for their great work here: Iris, Pete, Sean B, Tom, Gui, Liam, Henry, and more.
figma.com/blog/figma-make-no…
Figma Make, now on your local code
In limited beta starting today, you can visually edit and ship changes by connecting Make to your codebase
At Figma, we use our products to design in every way: design layers, prototypes, and now, production code
How we made vector editing up to 10x faster, with @lbudorick
0:00 Intro
0:17 Instanced rendering
0:38 Fast path for drawing selected segments
0:53 Hit testing
1:09 Stroke options & box selection
1:23 Gathering selection colors
1:39 Outro
Every year at Config our amazing UX writing team @figma organizes a meetup. There's still a few spots remaining for any writerly type who enjoys good food and a good time.
If you'll be in SF on June 23, we'd love to see you there: eventbrite.com/e/ux-writer-m…
A thread of @figma agent prompt examples / screen recordings I helped bring to life to get you started on automations (with 🎵 made on my OP-XY): 🧵
1.) Explore design directions
Prompt: Give me 3 style options for this design, one that's organic, one modern, and one retro.
Meet the Figma design agent, with @taamannae and @rodrigodavies
0:00 Intro
0:12 Ways to use the design agent
0:27 Automating repetitive tasks
1:01 Running explorations in parallel
1:25 Maintaining design libraries
1:43 Remixing styles and layouts
2:14 Using design libraries
2:48 Collaboration and comments
3:51 Outro