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How Cloud City Helped Breadwinner Build a Functional and Supportive Community for Bakers

A functioning, user-friendly online experience isn’t just a nice-to-have. It can be a tool for connection and community. And creating those experiences is one of the best parts of our job.

Loafing Around with Breadwinner

Working with Breadwinner’s social network helped me cultivate a hungry sourdough starter — and connect with my neighbors and family.

Leveraging Stretch Layout with Constraints

Learn everything about Figma updates and plugins, all in under a minute. In this episode of Figma55 we cover the Figma's secretive way to stretch content based on stretch layout grids

Free Illustration Resource with the Blush Plugin

Learn everything about Figma updates and plugins, all in under a minute. In this episode of Figma55 we cover the wonderful "Blush" plugin which uses a massive illustration librar to help users compose custom illustrations

Figma55 - Create Perfect Spacing Specs with the Redlines Plugin

Learn everything about Figma updates and plugins, all in under a minute. In this episode of Figma55 we cover the Figma Plugin "Redlines" from Publisher Danny Keane. Redlines helps you annotate detailed spacing measurements for your developers.

Figma55 - Auto Layout Crash Course

Learn everything about Figma updates and plugins, all in under a minute. In this episode of Figma55 we cover Figma Auto Layout, which auto-updates style padding, and lets you drag and drop your figma elements as if it was a website builder.

Figma55 - Communities

Learn everything about Figma updates and plugins, all in under a minute. In this episode of Figma55 we cover Figma's new "community" hub, which lets you take a peek at the design systems of some of the biggest names in the business!

Figma55- Auto Layout for Tables

With Figma 55 you can learn all about Figma's hidden gems and plugins, in 55 seconds flat. This episode of Figma55 highlights how to use Figma's new Auto Layout tool for making a simple table, all in under a minute!

Figma55- Duotones

Time is valuable. I'm not going to waste your time. I won't even take a minute of it! With Figma 55 you can learn all about Figma's hidden gems and plugins, in 55 seconds flat. This episode features the "Duotones" plugin!

Figma55- Noise

Time is valuable. I'm not going to waste your time. I won't even take a minute of it! With Figma 55 you can learn all about Figma's hidden gems and plugins, in 55 seconds flat.

Tag Trash for Policy Change #trashtag

Feeling inspired from seeing all the #trashtag content on social media over the past month, but don’t know where to start? We have just the solution! But first, some backstory…

Wacom vs. Apple Pencil

There are a lot of choices about what tools are the best for the job, especially for digital design. Learn about cost, availability, and tactile tradeoffs for digital drawing with Wacom or Apple Pencil.

Know Your Microagressions: Gaslighting

Microaggressions appear to be small slights, but substantially contribute to a hostile work environment. From the outside, they look innocuous enough; more like clumsy misunderstandings, but a persistent pattern of them can wield tremendous damage to teams.

Sketch Plugin for Creating Artboard Sized to Fit Selected Objects

Quickly create multiple perfectly sized artboards from one file with this Sketch plugin that sizes using your selected objects.

Iterating rapidly on UI design means you’re going to need multiple different sized artboards as you share ideas amongst your team members. So rather than share artboards that are too big for your needs, check out this Sketch plugin Brendan Miller developed to create artboards based on your selected objects.

Introducing the Designer's Toolbox - Sketch vs Adobe Photoshop

Eliminate the headaches of large UI or web design files in your reviews consider Sketch instead of Adobe Photoshop.

In the first of an ongoing video series, The Designer’s Toolbox Series, our designer Brendan Miller creates an artboard in both Sketch and Adobe Photoshop to show which tool generates the smallest file size.
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