Streaming
Cole Derochie from Shopify made a plugin for simulating an LLM streaming experience — make sure to check out the demo.
CMYK Halftone
A cool plugin by Daniel Petho simulating traditional CMYK halftone printing by generating and overlaying separate cyan, magenta, yellow, and black halftone dot screens, with adjustable colors, dot size, frequency, and imperfections.
The Glass effect is now generally available, and Miggi introduces a few updates: add Glass to any object, shape, or text; design Glass with non-uniform corners and precisely round each corner radius; use the Splay property to control how light bends around an object’s edges; and apply variables to Glass properties to easily connect to your design system.
Ana Boyer designs a web homepage, showcasing recently launched Figma Design and Draw features. “Learn how to create a text-inlay parallax hero using Remove background and Isolate object, apply Glass effects, expand an image within a grid, generate illustrations via AI prompts, and add Draw texture effects.”
Tom Johnson has an in-depth thread on how dithering works, how it breaks, and some tools to get it to look best.
Okay let's talk about dithering.
— Tom Johnson (@tomjohndesign) October 28, 2025
It's the thing right now, but before you go off and start adding it to all of your images and making your site look all low-fi, let me tell you how it can work, how it breaks, and some tools to get it to look best.
Let's go 👇
My sympathy goes out to web developers looking for Glass’s CSS in Dev Mode.
Figma’s newest product designer Rogie presents a new effect that allows you to manipulate light, depth, frost, and refraction to create dynamic elements that refract light like physical glass. This playground file will teach you how to use the effect and provide creative inspiration to have fun with glass.
This effect looks incredible! So glad we won’t need to deal with hacky imitations. Don’t miss a breakdown of how Miggi made this video.
Tired of liquid glass yet? Sebastiano Guerriero shares a step-by-step process of creating a different type of colored glass buttons.
Customizable glass effect generator supporting background blur, color tints, and textures with export to CSS.
Sergei Chyrkov recorded a tutorial on imitating the Liquid Glass effect on a button in Figma.
Allan Yu imitates the Liquid Glass effect in Figma by using the new texture feature in Figma Draw. A few other takes using similar techniques by Camden, Luis Ouriach, Brett from Designjoy, Max, and Ben South — some are with the Figma files as well.
Of course, the elephant in the room is the sneak peek by Figma that native Liquid Glass support is coming soon.
John LePore explains refraction — light passes from one material to the next — for non-3D designers.
A new practical plugin from Luis comes in handy while rebuilding shadows in Figma from an existing website.
“Generate stunning fractal patterns with mathematical precision. Fractalix creates beautiful recursive designs perfect for backgrounds, textures, and digital art. Customize complexity and style with one click.”
Brett from Designjoy shows how to apply dithering in Figma using the Dither plugin.
Nice to see stunning gradients made from scratch. The Figma file is now available for download.
You can always rely on Vijay to come up with the most creative ways to achieve special effects.
A tutorial from James on creating beautiful background patterns and effects. I haven’t tried the vga blurrific.exe plugin he recommends, but it looks really cool.
