Manipulating Figma and building your own tools for expression | Figment #01

Apr 28, 5:30 – 7:30 PM (UTC)

Coimbra

DesignMake

About this event

There's a gap between what you can imagine and what you know how to make. That gap is frustrating — and completely normal.

But what if the answer wasn't to learn more tools, but to build your own?

This workshop is about pushing Figma into uncomfortable territory — bending it, breaking its conventions, and making it do things it probably wasn't designed to do.

We'll use Figma Design, Figma Make, AI features and plugins not as a means to an end, but as raw material. As a medium.

For 2 hours, we'll explore your ability to go beyond the basics and extend your creativity with these tools, be it building visuals, interactive projects, sound-based tools, games,... you name it,

The goal isn't to produce polished UI. It's to explore: to build your own workflows, generate unexpected aesthetics, and create tools that are yours — assembled from the inside of a tool that usually tells you how to work.

Think less "following the process", more "hijacking it".

Come with curiosity. Leave with something you didn't expect to make.

Figment is a workshop series about bringing ideas to life with Figma, in ways that go beyond the obvious.

Agenda:

  • 6:00pm - Open Doors & Check-in

  • 6:30pm - Intro & about Friends of Figma

  • 6:40pm - Workshop

  • 8:15pm - Closing

  • 8:30pm - End of workshop

Want to join us for dinner after?
Let us know when registering and we'll book a table somewhere to keep the conversation going (each pays their own dinner).

Speaker

  • Bruno Figueiredo

    OutSystems | FoF Coimbra Leader

    Lead Designer

When

When

Tuesday, April 28, 2026
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM (UTC)

Organizers

  • Bruno

    Friends of Figma, Portugal

    Leader

  • Salomé

    Friends of Figma, Portugal

    Leader

  • Íris Pereira

    FiberSight

    Co-Organizer

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