Figma 10 new updated features in 2022

Ajay Singh
6 min readMar 21, 2022

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Figma is a collaborative designing tool for UI UX designers which is revolutionizing the design industry. Despite Sketch, which is only a macOS tool, it is a web-based tool that not only works in Macs, but also in Windows, Laptops, and Linux PCs, as well as in Chromebooks.

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Getting more people involved in designing and keeping everyone in sync is not an easy task. But Figma made it easier with its new updates. In this blog, we’ll tell you about the most recent updates and features of Figma.

Figma updates at a glance

  • Keep up with the latest search results
  • FIGJAM will now allow you to connect and collaborate
  • Get all of your resources in one place
  • Get more ease while changing font size
  • Stamps and highlights that will last a lot longer
  • Modifications in shape and color
  • The selection of borders are now less complicated
  • Figma Enterprise allows you to scale your business with adaptive auto layout
  • 1000+ Fonts are pre-installed and smart color selection
  • Now you can hyperlink any text and share

Figma 10 new updated features

1. Keep up with the latest search results

Searching for the most trending designs can waste valuable thinking time. But Figma is here with great two new updates that will make it even easier for you to find the files you need:

  • Previews of the files: When you search in Figma, it will show you a preview of the relevant search results so you can find the right file faster.
  • Filters for file types: You can now use Figma or FIGJAM files to filter your recent, team pages, and search results.

2. FIGJAM will now allow you to connect and collaborate

Figma makes sure that even the most basic interactions are easy and enjoyable for you. So now FIGJAM is out of beta version and available for all your teams.

Also, the users requested greater text size choices, and stickier stamps are updated. Figma has implemented these changes, as well as other ideation and graphing enhancements in FIGJAM.

Designers waste lots of valuable time while sharing their work using standard offline applications like Sketch and Photoshop, but now with Figma, sharing work files is super seamless and easy.

3. Get all of your resources in one place

You can easily find all your resources in FIGJAM or add anything to the canvas. Whether you’re setting up a file for a meeting or collaborating with a small group. Figma has simplified the toolbar so now you just have to look at one place to find all details, templates, themes, widgets, and more.

4. Get more ease while changing font sizes

Different font sizes make it easier to organize ideas and build a good content structure. This Figma update aids meeting facilitators in emphasizing key sections of the file so that viewers are aware of the most important information. Now by sliding the text box corners, you can easily change the size of the text.

5. Stamps and highlights that will last a lot longer

A creative UI UX designer needs to record the +1s and heart reactions connected with each idea when they begin grouping their ideas together. Now the stamps and highlights will hold to the object to which they are connected, or where they are placed on the canvas.

6. Modifications in shape and color

Figma has made some modifications in shapes and colors to provide you with helpful visual images for more sophisticated diagrams as you plan outflows in FIGJAM. Also, the color picker and shape swapper symbols in the toolbar have been replaced so you can design more seamlessly.

7. The selection of borders are now less complicated

Now in Figma, you can directly choose to focus on one or two images as you add them to your ideation. You can now use a border to make any image flare out on the canvas too.

And when it comes to borders, they have made selection boundaries narrower so that they don’t collide as much with fills. Furthermore, the broader selection corners will make it easier for you to select and modify the various objects.

8. Figma Enterprise allows you to scale your business with adaptive auto layout

It’s difficult to keep track of what’s going on and where when you’re working together in a team or at different time zones. So the Figma Enterprise gives your team the structure, granular controls, sophisticated protection, and support they need to stay productive to grow.

With the updated Figma enterprise workspace you can quickly navigate to each work section of your UI design. You can also have your own workplace with Figma Enterprise.

Here your whole team can find the files, teams, and libraries they need while being able to find and share more resources with the rest of the team.

The Auto layout is now more adaptive. Figma really worked hard to make the Auto layout even more powerful. Auto layout, which was inspired by user feedback, can now be used to create responsive elements that stretch to fill their space, as well as the buttons that resize with their text and lists that can be easily rearranged. Well, this feature is very useful while designing for a variety of device kinds.

9. 1000+ Fonts are pre-installed and smart color selection

While having a lot of alternatives is beneficial, going through a never-ending list of fonts. So with Figma’s new update you can use and share any customized fonts you create. The Font Picker has been updated to highlight the fonts you use for most of your work.

Your shared fonts and your designed fonts can be searched by others also. It also shows all of the fonts used in your file so that you can assure that your font designs are consistent.

With an updated smart selection you can choose colors with special modifications. As being a UI UX design agency you must modify the color of fills, brushes, and text to make them unique. But sometimes all you want is for them to be the same color. Now with Selection Colors, you can quickly change the colors of fills, brushes, and text in a batch.

10. Now you can hyperlink any text and share

You can now quickly hyperlink any text to any page on the web, any page within a file, or any frame in the editor, ensuring that you never lose the context. A link can be added to a whole text layer or a subset of text within it. You can also use this to connect, explain or inform others by sharing or embedding files and prototypes. With public or you could just keep the prototypes without sharing the underlying design file and share it with people outside your team or businesses.

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