The Figma team has introduced three updates to frame presets in UI3, designed to enhance your design efficiency:

My kid is in a little phase where word search puzzles are really fun. She likes doing them, and then possibly because we share blood, she immediately started to want to make them.

I love talking to students for their refreshing ambition. I spoke recently at the UW HCI program (thanks to my friend and host Douglas Pyle) and their energy was delightful. They imagine great projects in their future and can’t wait to get started. Yet we all know after a few years in the workforce, that joy often fades. What can we do to bring it back? Here is one way.

In the world of User Experience (UX) design, Jakob Nielsen’s 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design have long been the cornerstone for crafting intuitive, user-friendly digital interfaces.

We turned six big ideas percolating around the Figma office—written from the perspective of devs, designers, analysts, writers, PMs, card-carrying generalists—and put them on record. Here’s a look at what’s on our minds for 2025.

Do you manage a website and prioritize its security? A complete backup system is the most viable strategy.

Product drops and sales are a great way to increase revenue, but these events can result in traffic spikes that affect a site’s availability and performance. To prevent website crashes, you’ll have to make sure that the sites you design can handle large numbers of server requests at once. Let’s discuss how!

React Native has become a convenient framework that lets developers build apps for both iOS and Android using just one codebase.

Rudy Khaw, CEO at AirAsia brand co. – an entity dedicated to enhancing the reach and impact of the AirAsia brand through brand management, licensing, IP development and merchandising – has championed a vision where AI serves not as a replacement for human ingenuity, but as a powerful collaborator.

Imagine this: You’re completing a registration form with multiple fields. You push yourself to finish it, only to be met with an alert that says, The value entered input field X is invalid or you see an error message slightly below the input field(s) with the error(s). While these methods do provide feedback, there are more user-friendly ways to enhance the experience.