A breaking news story within the Figma community: Apple has just integrated Figma Community by launching their first official design kit on the platform ! This revolutionary partnership allows Apple to provide designers with a comprehensive set of resources to create highly realistic iOS and iPadOS applications. Here’s a summary of the key features of this design kit, along with upcoming enhancements and additional libraries planned for Apple platforms.
1. A complete design kit for realistic interfaces
Apple’s official design kit for Figma is a goldmine for designers. It encompasses an exhaustive range of components, views, system interfaces, text styles, color palettes, materials, and layout guides. With these resources, designers have all the essential elements needed to quickly create visually faithful iOS and iPadOS applications.
2. Key features for an immersive user experience
The Figma kit provides numerous indispensable elements for any designer. You will have a wide selection of Apple components, ranging from alerts to widgets, allowing you to design a variety of interface elements. Templates for home screen and lock screen widgets are also included, streamlining the creation of cohesive and convincing interfaces. You’ll even find design templates for notifications to enrich the user experience and craft more engaging Figma designs.
This Figma kit also offers templates for different types of applications, such as tabbed apps, parent/child apps, split views, and sheets. It includes a comprehensive dynamic table of fonts and font sizes, ensuring an optimal user experience for all users.
Finally, the colors, materials, text styles, and vibration effects integrated into the iOS system are directly accessible within the design kit, facilitating visual consistency and compliance with Apple’s guidelines.
3. Future enhancements and planned libraries
Apple is committed to continuously improving this Figma design kit and adding new components for Apple technologies such as Apple Pay, App Clips, Shortcuts, and more. Additionally, other libraries are planned for Apple platforms like macOS Sonoma, watchOS 10, tvOS, and visionOS. This ongoing evolution will keep designers at the forefront of the latest innovations, enabling them to create exceptional user experiences across all Apple platforms.
4. Utilizing Apple’s Figma design kit
Now that you’re aware of this news, here are some steps to make the most of Apple’s design kit on Figma:
- Access the design kit: To begin, follow this link: Apple Design Resources - iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 from the Figma Community. Click on "Open in Figma" to directly launch the kit in your Figma project. You can also give the kit a “like” since we appreciate that!
- Explore the components: Once the design kit is open in Figma, you can start exploring the various available components. Browse through the different categories, from icons to buttons to dropdown menus, to find the elements that suit your needs. Click on a component to add it to your project.
- Customization and adaptation: You can customize the components from the design kit to align them with your vision. Importantly, you can reuse all of these interfaces and elements to integrate them into your Apple application. Adjust the colors, fonts, sizes, and text styles to harmonize your app with the Apple interface. You can also resize the components to work with larger or smaller proportions.
- Use the templates: The design kit also includes pre-made templates for widgets, notifications, and other common interface elements. Use these templates as a starting point to speed up your workflow. Modify them according to your specific needs by adding content, adjusting visual properties, and personalizing them for your application.
- Collaboration and sharing: Figma is also a collaborative platform, meaning you can invite other team members to work on the project with you. Take advantage of this feature to receive feedback, collaborate in real-time, and collectively enhance your design.
The collaboration between Apple and Figma presents designers with a unique opportunity to create realistic and compelling Apple interfaces. Thanks to Apple's comprehensive Figma design kit, designers have access to a multitude of resources to develop iOS and iPadOS applications with high fidelity.
