News and Updates

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE NEW FEATURES WE ANNOUNCED AT CONFIG 2024! 🎉 Figma AI ✨ Explore different ways to express your vision, find the inspiration you need from your team’s work, and get the tedious tasks done fast so you can take your designs to new heights. AI tools in Figma Design can be found in the Actions menu in the toolbar. Use AI tools in Figma to: Make designs: Transform ideas into editable designs in a couple of minutes. This helps you explore a wider range of design possibilities and iterations quickly, and reduces the amount of effort needed to manually create early explorations from scratch. Find assets and designs: Use images and designs to search for similar designs and components made by your team or organization. Find the components you need from the Assets tab without having to memorize their names. Rename layers: Organize your file by giving all your layers meaningful names with a click. Make prototypes: Quickly turn your mocks into an interactive proto

You asked for them, & now, tables for FigJam are here! Learn all about tables in FigJam here:Figma

Typography variables now include scoping, a follow up from Framework Scoping a variable allows you to limit which properties it can be applied to. This gives you better control over where the variable can be used and cuts out the guesswork when designing. For example, if you scope a number variable to font size, you’ll only be able to apply the variable to font size. x.com We’ve clarified the mechanics of copying and pasting an object bound to local variables No longer automatically populating a file with local variables by default unless a user specifies Introducing an interstitial tooltip (B) that requires the user to confirm before bringing along any local variables. Check out the Variables Playground file → https://figma.bot/VariablesPlayground

On the Enterprise plan, workspace admins can now brand the workspaces they manage to reflect their group by adding custom icons to workspaces. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Add%20custom%20icons%20to%20workspaces

We’re excited to announce that we’ve made FigJam compatible with screen readers. Users that rely on screen reader technology can now interact with FigJam boards by: reading out content, including board hierarchy, shapes with text, stickies, tables, and image alt text moving focus around the canvas and into different menus creating and editing content, such as any editable text or comments using a screen reader or keyboard shortcuts You can read more about which actions are supported via screen reader in our Help Center. This is our first iteration in making FigJam more inclusive from an accessibility standpoint, and we’d love to learn more about how we can improve upon this work. Please leave comments below about your experience using FigJam with a screen reader, improvements we can make, and what you’d like to see us tackle next to make FigJam a place where everyone can jam together!

Monthly payout statements are now available in your Community profile. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Download%20Payout%20Statements%20in%20Community

Figma just dropped Code Connect to help map more closely to code, Variables is out of beta(adding typography and gradients), and more! 🎉 Code Connect Beta: Code Connect is a tool for design systems teams to bring component code directly into Dev Mode. Now, when developers inspect a component, they can see production-ready code snippets from your library. Currently in Beta Enterprise or Organization plans only To learn more, check out the help center article here! twitter.com Library Analytics API Beta: Now, your team can access Figma library data outside of the app, so you can organize the data based on your organization’s needs. This will include component insertion, detachment, and instance data, as well as team and file-level breakdowns. Enterprise plans only To learn more, check out the help center article here!

Introducing a simpler way to edit multiple objects! 🎉 Now you can: Select matching layers faster Accurately resize and align objects to their frames Batch edit text boxes across frames Easily make changes across all variants in a component set and so much more!

🆕 Make your best design ideas feel real, faster with 15+ updates to prototyping, along with other new features in Figma that will help you simplify your workflows! See below for the full list and check out our Help Center articles to have more information. ✨ Device Frames ✨ The inline viewer now shows mobile prototypes in a draggable, resizable device frame (iPhone, iPad, Watch, etc). Learn more: Set prototype device and background settings and Play your prototypes ✨ Editing Speed Improvements ✨ Copy and Paste / Delete Noodles: When noodles are selected, a user can copy and paste the noodle (and the associated interaction) to a different element. They can also delete the noodle (and the associated interaction). Learn more Drag to delete starting point: By dragging the “flow label” outside of the frame, a user can quickly delete it. Learn more Disable shortcuts: Turning off “Enable Figma Shortcuts” now disables all shortcuts on a prototype (not ju

Starting today, Figma Enterprise customers have the option to host key parts of their Figma and FigJam files in the EU. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Host%20Figma%20and%20FigJam%20files%20in%20the%20EU

Now you can map out more detailed processes without sacrificing polish with our latest diagramming improvements. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Build%20polished%20flowcharts%20faster%20and%20with%20new%20icons%20and%20shapes

The quickest way to get the best content from Figma is Shortcut, our newly redesigned blog. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Introducing%20Shortcut%2C%20Figma%27s%20new%20blog

ICYMI, at Config, our annual user conference, we announced exciting updates to bring design and development closer together in Figma. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=New%20at%20Config%202023%3A%20Dev%20Mode%2C%20variables%2C%20advanced%20prototyping%2C%20and%20more

You can now design in either sRGB or Display P3 in Figma on both desktop and web. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Display%20P3%20color%20management

Now you can easily save your favorite resources from Community to use in your design files and FigJam boards. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Save%20your%20favorite%20Community%20resources

You can now embed videos in FigJam. MP4 and MOV files are both supported. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Videos%20in%20FigJam

Variables was launched at our annual Config conference to help designers implement themes and tokens into their design systems. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Variables%20fast-follow%20updates

With Jambot, you can bring the power of ChatGPT directly into FigJam to help you spark a first draft and make progress faster. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Introducing%20Jambot%2C%20a%20new%20way%20to%20interact%20with%20ChatGPT%20right%20in%20FigJam

Introducing custom color palettes in FigJam This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Custom%20color%20palettes%20in%20FigJam

Our new Community Libraries Beta offers the building blocks you need to start designing, right at your fingertips. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Design%20faster%20with%20access%20to%20our%20new%20Community%20Libraries%20Beta

In week 2 of Little Big Updates Weekly, we have a bunch of exciting new updates that will help you collaborate more creatively in Figma and FigJam. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Little%20Big%20Updates%20Week%202%3A%20New%20ways%20to%20collaborate%20visually%20in%20Figma%20and%20FigJam

If your design file is at 100% of your memory limit upon open and you have editor permissions, you now have the option to recover your file by entering Recovery Mode. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Recovery%20out%20of%20memory%20files%20with%20Recovery%20Mode

Our team's released assets panel improvements to help more users design consistently and efficiently with easier ways to search, browse, preview, and interact with the components you're looking for. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Little%20Big%20Updates%20Week%201%3A%20Assets%20panel%20improvements

No more tab switching, no more missed comments, and way more interaction and collaboration with your team. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Collaborate%20on%20Figma%20or%20FigJam%20files%20-%20directly%20in%20Google%20Meet

This week, LBU is all about simplifying how you design in Figma. This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?title=Little%20Big%20Updates%20Week%203%3A%20Fixes%20to%20make%20designing%20in%20Figma%20simpler