r/FigmaDesign

Pretty much what the title says —

Our company just decided to start a second brand. We are inheriting 80% of existing styles but creating about 10 brand-color overrides. So I created variables and modes for this. But I'm basically just trying want to avoid confusion for our design team, none of whom have used variables before. I want to keep them using styles and avoid the "Should I apply a style or variable to this element?" confusion.

Thanks!

Worked in a start-up for a few months. Small team, 10-15 people. It was not a match, the product was too technical for me. Head of Product & Design ended my trial period after 3 months or something, it’s okay, it happens!

Few weeks later, I heard that they laid off half of their team due to lack of income.

Today I’ve googled him, and stumbled upon his portfolio.

The man has literally copy pasted my case study structure and « image style » if I can call it like that. The dimensions are the exact same, the layout too.

It just felt… weird

Hey everyone, my college fees are due at the end of this term, and I’m currently looking for some freelance work to make a bit of extra money ($60-70).

If anyone needs a website, feel free to contact me. I can build full-stack websites including frontend, backend, responsive UI, dashboards, portfolios, landing pages, and more.

if interested I will share my portfolio

Even small projects would really help right now. Thanks ❤️

I'm about to start a new job and I'm genuinely curious in order to prepare myself on how everyone uses AI alongside Figma:

1. How's your day to day workflow with Figma and which tools do you use?
2. How has it helped you become more efficient?
3. Any tips you can recommend to someone who's still learning Figma and AI applications?

Thanks for your time!

Hi everyone. So I need help in getting intermediate or at least get advanced on Figma. I know that sounds weird since Figma is an industry standard; however, I didn't get a chance to use it in my past positions between 2020 - 2026.

Now I have to because most jobs require you to be proficient with Figma for most graphic designer jobs. I already got started by taking LinkedIn Learning and a few free library classes using my library card, but I'm still struggling with it, even though people say it's easy to use. For personal projects, I use Adobe XD during the COVID shutdown to experiment, and I thought the experience would be transferable to Figma would be easy since I was designing UI interface for websites and apps. But it's not. I have trouble in doing animations and prototyping.

Is there any good YouTube channels that go deep into Figma in an easy and understandable way to get it down to a proficient level? I don't want to take courses that cost a lot of money, like Skillshare and Coursera.

I'm noticing all these unnecessary UI changes and it's really getting on my nerves...Why do these? Make it make sense...

Some of my colleagues aren't seeing these. Is there any way to turn them off?

The old icons were much better

This toggle button...

Not a rant. Just something I needed to get off my chest after living inside this problem for way too long.

We have a 24 member design-dev team. Tokens set up properly in Figma. color, spacing, typography, the whole thing. Semantic naming. Variable collections. Modes for light/dark. It looked clean.

Devs still hardcoded #1A1A2E directly in the stylesheet.

Every time.

I used to think it was a discipline problem. Turns out it was a visibility problem. The tokens existed, but nothing was surfacing them at the point where a AI agent actually needed them, when they're staring at a component trying to implement it.

The gap isn't that Ai agent don't care about tokens. It's that the handoff never made tokens the path of least resistance.

So I started building a tool to fix exactly that. Two months in. It:

• Audits components and flags which ones are actually bound to tokens vs hardcoded values
• Auto-generates specs per component including which token maps to which property
• Tells you the % of your file that's "tokenized" so you can actually track progress

The audit part was the most eye-opening. First time I ran it on our main file token coverage was just 34%. We thought we were at 80%+.

The next problem I'm trying to solve: getting those tokens out of Figma and into the formats AI agents can actually read. Not a JSON export no one reads. More like... the files that sit inside a dev's project and get consumed automatically.

Still working on it. Just curious if this resonates with anyone else.

How tokenized is your Figma file, honestly? And do your devs / agent actually reference tokens during implementation or does that step just... not happen?

Can you build a full responsive portfolio on figma which would have 3d animations, transitions, scrolling effects etc without any coding ? Also can anyone recommend a good course on youtube.

Where do you prefer to get info of any Figma news? Instagram, LinkedIn, newsletter etc?

I'm setting up a component library and I'm wondering where I should build in prototype interactions (on-hover, on-click, etc).

Since Figma doesn't handle boolean properties with prototypes very well (example: a button label with or without an icon) I'm wondering if I should fully build out component sets with each element that would otherwise be set as a boolean set up as its own variant and interactions set up between each variant property. I know this is how component sets had to get built before variables and applying booleans to elements was introduced ~2023 but would it be better now to have the core library in the design system fully expanded and prototyped, or set up such that project teams will have to set up the interactions themselves?

Has anyone found a way to "pay as you go" with Figma Make? All I see is preset credit amounts to choose from.

i was using all the figma ai features like Remove background, vectrorise, expand, etc in my design uptill now since its release but today when i opened my figma and tried them, it is showing me the pop up to upgrade my plan to professional(i am and was on the free plan). does this mean the ai features are now gone for me?? or is there any update? i still have monthly and my daily credits remaining. please help.