Figma Community riffs in beta
Summary
Figma's new Riffs feature lets designers share work directly from their profile with full layer and keyframe data intact, enabling community remixing and learning—democratizing design collaboration beyond traditional file sharing.
Key Takeaways
- Share up to 5 frames per riff post with full design assets and Motion keyframes preserved, allowing other users to copy frames directly into their projects and build on your work.
- Enable community remixing by exporting animations as videos while maintaining editable frame data, creating a GitHub-like workflow for design iterations.
- Use direct frame copying to distribute motion design work with all keyframes and visual assets embedded, reducing friction for collaborative design learning.
- Leverage community profiles as portfolio showcases where designers can link directly to specific riffs and embed video previews of their work.
- Create discoverable design patterns by combining shareable frames with descriptions and links, enabling others to learn animation techniques through practical examples.
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Transcript Excerpt
Hi friends. Miggi from Figma here. You can now post riffs to your Figma profile. What that means is you could post a shot of your design work or an animation that you've made with Figma Motion. Let me show you how you can do that. This right here is my Figma community page, and if I scroll all the way down, you can see some single frames of work. If I go to post, I can either choose to upload media of my work, so a PNG or a movie, or I can select frames from a file. Let's go to select frames from a file. That's gonna open up my recents. Let's open up this file right here. Go next, and while this is open, I can select up to five frames to share my profile. I just wanna share this one. I have in here an animation that is a loader animation. Let's select that. I'm gonna come up here to share,…