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Black-and-white halftone-style image of a man with glasses, identified as Bill Atkinson, wearing a collared shirt and looking slightly to the side.

Black-and-white halftone-style image of a man with glasses, identified as Bill Atkinson, wearing a collared shirt and looking slightly to the side.

Bill Atkinson’s 10 rules for making interfaces more human

Karri Saarinen’s 10 rules for crafting products that stand out

Dan Mall’s 10 principles for a worthy design career

How Linear crafts products that stand out

For quality, you need a team that views the spec as the baseline, not the finish line.

Karri Saarinen, CEO & Co-founder, Linear

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Best practices

8 essential tips for using Figma Make
June 10, 2025
By Alexia Danton
Here, we share our team’s favorite prompts, pro tips, and best practices for using Figma Make to help you get the most out of our recently launched prompt-to-code feature.
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8 tips for designers building branded templates in Figma Buzz
August 12, 2025
By Mallory Dean
To create self-serve templates that bend—but don’t break—brand designers need to consider work through a marketing lens. Here’s how to set up editing guardrails and design layouts that flex and scale.
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How to streamline your design system workflow in Figma
April 8, 2025
By Luis Ouriach
If you’ve ever stared down a blank Figma file while building a new design system, never fear: These new features and plugins will turn that mountain of work into an afternoon task.
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Guides for great teams

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Colorful abstract 3D artwork featuring a central yellow square containing geometric interface elements like a play button, lines, and shapes. Surrounding it are floating multicolored objects, including arrows, orbs, sparkles, and stick-figure characters, all on a vibrant gradient background of blue, pink, and purple.

Colorful abstract 3D artwork featuring a central yellow square containing geometric interface elements like a play button, lines, and shapes. Surrounding it are floating multicolored objects, including arrows, orbs, sparkles, and stick-figure characters, all on a vibrant gradient background of blue, pink, and purple.

The Duolingo method: Collaboration as a core practice

Early career

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Illustration of a technicolor tree stump growing a sprout against a starry night sky

Illustration of a technicolor tree stump growing a sprout against a starry night sky

What they’re not teaching in design class—and what you can do about it

The Long & Short of It

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A person rides an arrow like a surfboard, reaching toward the viewer with a pencil in hand.

A person rides an arrow like a surfboard, reaching toward the viewer with a pencil in hand.

Issue no.15: The state of design

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