Helpful Figma Resources
A lot of people ask me questions about Figma and how to find information, tips, tricks and best practices. This is the list. It will get updated as I find more information so check back frequently (or subscribe to the RSS feed).
Social
- Friends of Figma, San Diego–I run it, you should join. It's free and we do cool things like networking events and virtual panels.
- Figma Twitter–They make announcements about features and events.
- Friends of Figma Slack Channel–They say it's "going away" but I think most people are resistant to switch to...
- Friends of Figma Discord Server–... a noisier version of the same thing.
- Figma Developers Slack Channel–If you're into crafting plugins this is helpful.
- Figma Sub Reddit–You may not find answers, but you can ask them and the community is generally helpful.
Videos
- Friends of Figma, San Diego YouTube Channel–Find recordings of past events. Yes, this is the second shameless plug.
- Figma Schema Videos–Truly a great virtual event with lots of inspiring content and topics of interest to those into Design Systems.
- Figma How-To Videos–Just about everything under the sun to get you started with Figma.
Articles
- Migrating Your Design System From Sketch to Figma: Best Practices–An article I wrote a while back that might provide some insight if you're moving away from Sketch.