But as of last week, Selection Colors v2 is now true to its original vision, meticulously crafted to perfection, flawless in every regard!
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3. I thought this was a great collaboration between design and engineering; something I also care a lot about, and something I see a lot inside Figma.
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We do not only have great engineers, and not only try to cultivate a great respect for either profession (and encourage thoughtful cross-pollination), but we understand that designers alone could not create a useful design tool.
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(As an example, with Auto Layout, our engineers –
@kenrickrilee and@willyvvu and@jessieteaa – all made design decisions, and some of them I only became aware of after launch. It was great.)Show this thread -
And now, two codas: One is that I got to use Selection Colors to work for some visuals on my personal book project.pic.twitter.com/RHaU5dkXh1
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This wasn’t the most important part of this effort, but I’m not going to lie – it’s pretty awesome to use the tools you helped create. It’s like creating on two different levels at the same time.
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Two: Just last week,
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I forgot that long before I joined Figma, I actually pitched Selection Colors as an external fan/observer. This completely slipped my mind. Here is that Medium (of course) post: https://medium.com/@mwichary/quick-ui-idea-selection-colours-aeedc00d7d70 …pic.twitter.com/FbruxAOnrk
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This was the past – what’s the future? I am not sure. Some of you requested Selection Text, and I’m onboard with that, but also I realize it requires quite a bit more thinking.https://twitter.com/andreinegrau/status/1248183000451383296 …
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Over time, my guess would be the crosshairs icons are likely to make an appearance in others parts of Figma UI where that feature would be useful. (Which was yet another part of building SC: sketching the future where SC already exists.)
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But nothing is set in stone is yet, and none of these are promises in any way. Let’s just use it for a while and see what we learn. And that includes you. Please send
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BTW this wasn’t a complete walkthrough of the process, but parts that stood out to me most. Any thoughts or questions? Let me know!
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In the meantime, I’ll look at some other ideas put aside long time ago, and see if any of them deserve more attention. :·)
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(Credit should also go to
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