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10 MORE Figma Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier
More Figma hacks you might not know yet.
After writing 10 Figma Tricks I Wish I Knew Earlier, and receiving such awesome feedback, I decided to take it a step further and share more ways that I’ve been using Figma and Figma plugins to design at warp speed.
1. Breakpoints
The breakpoints plugin makes your designs nearly identical to CSS flexbox right in your design file. By first designing the different breakpoints for your design, you can then easily plug them into an adaptive frame and watch as it magically adapts while you drag the edges.
2. Add status tags to frames
When collaborating with clients, stakeholders, or other designers in Figma it can be confusing to communicate the status of designs. At last, the Frame Tags plugin allows you to add quick status updates to frames so there’s no need to clarify to other collaborators. Choose from a pre-set list of statuses or create your own!
3. Go incognito
If you get designer anxiety like I do, and don’t want other people in your Figma file to see your in-progress designs, then simply disconnect from Wi-Fi.
I know it seems strange but going offline is the only way to work in a design file without having other cursors snooping on you — it’s also an added bonus that you won’t be distracted by Slack and YouTube.
Just be sure not to close your file before you reconnect to WiFi to avoid losing your progress. You can also save an offline version (.fig) if needed since Figma currently does not save local copies.
