Remove the "direction" property on your arrow icons

And thumbs, chevrons, trend lines...
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Icons
Properties

Prevent icons from cracking when outlining strokes

there's two different workarounds!
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3
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Icons

Use branches to keep file memory low

It turns out layers and large variant sets aren't the only things eating up file memeory
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6
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Branches
File memory

3 reasons to use variables for validation styling (instead of variants)

reduce memory usage, improve component usability, and a third thing!
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Variables

Tutorial: build WORKING radio buttons, tabs, pagination, and breadcrumb sets in your Figma library

A workaround for managing prototype-ready materials in your library
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Prototyping
Libraries

Should library components come with prototyping interactions? Only sometimes...

Checkboxes, yes. Radios, no.
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Libraries
Prototyping

Organize your variables in 3 levels of collections

alt title: how to make sense of variable collections in Figma
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Naming things
Variables

Teaching "Intro to graphic design" at American University, Fall 2023

wish me luck!
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Config 2023 Reflections

How the new features and enhancements affect my past blog posts
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5
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Dev mode
Variables
Auto layout

I have beef with status emojis in component library Page names

The concept is useful, but I have beef with the execution.
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Naming things
Libraries