A design focused collection of companies, studios and VCs based in Germany.

Startups & Studios in Germany

Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut, desk area

In this tutorial, we’ll go over everything you need to start making plugins in Figma. We’ll also make a simple plugin that instantly creates a set of spacer ...

Intro to making plugins in Figma

Guillermo Rauch presenting at Figma’s Config

Bar and lounge area at the Palihotel in San Francisco

an animation of a figure lifting into a handstand

Discover the vibrant neighborhood of West Berkeley with its unique shops, delicious food, and artistic charm.

Exploring West Berkeley · PamPam |  Create simple interactive maps

https://www.pampam.city/p/O3eu74yDw36L7cPTkExQ

Sparkly heart-shaped sticker that says ”I have once again decided to be difficult”

morning light on my colored pencil drawing

Peeking at a Paris street through my hotel window

poster for code in the dark event in Providence

Fragment of First State Bank building in Detroit, Classical Revival style.

Figma screenshot with auto layout workshop slides

Design systems can be of immense help, but failure to adopt them invalidates the hard work that goes into building the thing in the first place! In this two-part series of articles, Luis shares his experience with design systems and how you can overcome the potential pitfalls.

Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/12/building-components-consumption-not-complexity-part1/

German Historical Museum in Berlin, aka casino location from Lola Rennt film

front and back view of pelvis, with annotations

Fill out your own, custom calendar component with real data!  There're only two prerequisites: The day component of your calendar should be called ".calendar-day"The text layer for month and year should be "Month YYYY" To run the plugin: Select your calendar frameOpen the plugin, select month / w...

Calendar Data Generator | Figma Community

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1329228807242129260/calendar-data-generator

sunrise light bouncing off my white wall and giving it a warm pink glow

Interested in 🇩🇪 based companies, studios or VCs? I made an ever-growing collection of my favorite ones at www.biased-collection.com Is there something similar for other counties?

if you want to get into Figma’s Plugin API but would like some handholding to start, I made a tutorial for you 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 https://youtu.be/pA4n712h1Vc

vercel has been a game changer so I was VERY excited about this talk. (separately, geist has a special place in my heart 🖤)

have really enjoyed working at the palihotel lounge, so cozy and quiet. and they’re playing arctic monkeys.

Similayer plugin for mass applying variables 🙇 https://youtu.be/gNqyZGlLJg8

lean component libraries are my weakness ❤️‍🔥 ...current emotional outlet: taooffigma.com

this community inspired me to take an art class <3

flaneuring in sf, 2023 edition. I should figure out this image loading situation >< https://www.mash.haus/sf23

Just got super sucked into creating a map of my neighbourhood on Pampam by @helena - this is so fun, well done!

https://www.pampam.city/p/O3eu74yDw36L7cPTkExQ

after months of trying to figure out image loading on my own, I’m rebuilding the photos portion of my website using @sambecker's vercel template. i’m in love. thank you. thank you. THANK YOU.

finishing up a simple site for a friends frame building business

NEW ENGLAND NERDS I STOLE THIS IDEA FROM POSTS AND AM PUTTING IT ON WITH @msh LOCALLY COME CODE https://lu.ma/j1igj6sg

this week’s homework: hunting around the apartment for different textures

auto layout wrapping = less time for managing bigger component sets. (this could have been a short, but I was too excited https://youtu.be/ULpuhnpHOh4)

check out all the vases i've been making instead of working
https://instagram.com/vmpotteryla

PROVIDENCE ✨code in the dark is next week✨ vanilla html/css 🤍 join me and @leland: lu.ma/pvd

🐭 poster by Maggie

sixteen hours in detroit https://mash.haus/detroit

this glow up when publishing to hey world ✨

looking for a rails dev to help with my website 👀 if anyone’s got any leads i’ll be forever grateful!

more art class shenanigans: weaving old paper mementos… and giving overexposed polaroids a second life 🌱

Published a new article! It's about components, and took a year to write 😅

"Building Components For Consumption, Not Complexity" is kind of my thesis on ❖

Let me know what you think!
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2023/12/building-components-consumption-not-complexity-part1/

used rive to make an icon for my new figma plugin! this is supposed to be an eraser

text review plugins are so elegant yet underrated

love letter to berlin 💌 
mash.haus/berlin

@ providence people: coworking sesh this Wednesday 8/23 at Plant City 🌱 2-4pm, come hang :)

My mom (a math teacher) is learning Figma and she made this after our second lesson 💛 Auto layout and all that good stuff.

homework for intro to human anatomy class

[wip] A plugin for when an idea strikes you and you just want to start building without worrying about setting up colors (or dealing with the mess later…)

a calendar builder for (almost?) any calendar component

Have been working a lot with variables lately, so another plugin might be coming 🧩 This one is for creating color variables from custom scales / assigning values to new modes

...and it's live! thanks figma for the quick turnaround, like always <3 https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1329228807242129260/calendar-data-generator

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