Designer's Gospel: Apple launches Figma Design Suite, which covers all resources of iOS 17 and iPadOS 17

CTOnews.com June 8 news, Apple at this week's Global Developers Conference, designers brought a surprise. Apple officially joined the Figma community and released its own design kit, which includes resources for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. Figma is a popular online design platform that allows designers to easily create, collaborate and share interfaces and graphics.

Apple's Figma design suite covers everything from warning boxes to widgets for iOS 17 and iPad OS 17. Designers can use these resources to quickly create apple-style app interfaces and notification templates. The design suite also provides a complete set of dynamic type diagrams, system colors, materials, text styles, frosted glass effects, and more.

Apple says this is just the beginning, adding macOS Sonoma, watchOS 10, tvOS 17 and visionOS to its repository in the coming weeks and months. This is a valuable tool for designers who create for Apple platforms. They no longer have to remake their own material, but can directly use Apple's official design kit.

CTOnews.com notes that Figma has also recently shown interest in iPad, launching FigJam software for iPad OS that allows designers to sketch and whiteboard on iPad. Figma is also working on a more robust iPad app to meet more of the designers 'needs.

Figma will also host its annual Config conference in San Francisco later this month. This is a two-day event that will take place June 21 - 22 and also offers free virtual participation.