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The Designer’s Guide to Figma
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The Designer’s Guide to Figma

by Daniel Schwarz
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
177 pages
2h 21m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 5: Advanced Workflows

In this final chapter, we’ll take a look at some advanced Figma workflows. We’ll explore some totally new concepts, but also expand on some of the concepts explored in earlier tutorials.

We’ll look at data syncing in more detail, as well as Components and design systems. We’ll also dive straight into the deep end of typography, drawing, and usability testing. Along the way, we’ll look at how to use a few Figma plugins too.

Requesting Data from an API

Pulling data from an API into a Figma Layer is one of the coolest, most useful things we can do using Figma. If we were working on a mockup for Airbnb, for example, and we wanted to insert apartment data into it, we’d want to use the Airbnb API for speed, realism, and ...

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