A nice little grid update
Figma just shipped new updates to grid, including hug contents for cells and fractional units. They even demo a table at the end of their demo video. Can't wait to try this out!
Johan Ronsse
Designer/developer trying to find the balance between aesthetics and usability
Slots resources
One of the new features I am most excited about, announced at Schema — Figma's design systems conference — is slots. Official explanation Slots are explained by Figma as follows: Since components were originally released in Figma, they’ve had restrictions on how they could be used. For example, if
Early bird tickets for Config are for sale
The announcement Figma is organizing their Config conference again in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The conference is happening from June 23 to 26, 2026 in San Francisco. Early bird tickets are available for a few days for $450 to attend in-person. Streaming the conference is free. More info
Figma announces native import & export of variables aligning to W3C design tokens 1.0 spec
Figma is slowly releasing the Schema by Figma talks to YouTube. Today they put the talk about the Design Tokens Community Group 1.0 spec release online. Here's a summary: * Have you ever noticed how Figma delegates the import and export of variables to plugins? * No longer... this
From “traditional” prototyping to prompting via Make
Traditionally, Figma has been focusing on in-vision style prototyping, meaning you have tappable targets that you can click and use those targets to move from screen to screen. Later on, Figma added (when they released variables), a way to change variable modes and transform variables with expressions as well as
Figma has acquired Weavy: we take a deeper look
In this post, we take a closer look at the acquisition of Weavy by Figma. On the Weavy website, Weavy describes itself as “artistic intelligence” and a way to “turn your creartive vision into scalable workflows” The home page graphic pretty much describes it: a 3d model generated using an
Figma tip - The two ways to keep Figma color overrides when switching icon instances
We recently got the question how to keep color overrides when replacing icons in Figma. Designers might have encountered the problem that when overriding and icon instance, the color of the override does not get preserved. The easiest fix is making sure that all icons have the same internal layer
Extended collections are only available for enterprise customers
Cassie Groos wrote an excellent article about why it's problematic that extended collections are only available for enterprise customers. See the LinkedIn discussion as well.
Schema announcements availability
I found this helpful list of the availability of the schema announcements. This week: * More Variable modes * New Code Connect UI * Component mapping suggestions * Al-generated code snippets * MCP instructions * Remote MCP GA Next month: * Extended Collections * Variables import/export * Variables authoring improvements * npm package import in Make
Figma has a built-in color contrast tool
Did you know that Figma has a built-in color contrast tool? When you open the color picker, press the color contrast button on the top right. The foreground color or fill color of whatever you are selected will be compared against the background it's on. This way, you
Extended collections
One of the features that was also announced is Schema 2025's Extended Collections. It's a feature that's mostly useful for multi-brand design systems. Sadly, it's locked in the enterprise plan, which costs 90 euros per month. The general gist of it is
Welcome to Obra ❤️ Figma!
As somebody who gives commercial Figma workshops. I keep an eye on Figma, but it doesn't seem right to blog about Figma from the main Obra website blog. I'm trying out blogging about Figma via Ghost as a platform. This will allow me to keep Figma