Hypermatic Articles.
Read our thoughts on design and development, and follow along with what we're up to here at Hypermatic.
From Four to Five
Looking back on 2024 (and towards 2025) as we celebrate Hypermatic's fifth birthday.
The Low End Theory
A mid-year, independence day update on what we've been up to in 2024 so far, and what's on the horizon.
From Three to Four
Looking back on 2023 (and towards 2024) as we celebrate Hypermatic's fourth birthday.
Company Flow
A mid-year, independence day update on what we've been up to in 2023 so far, and what's on the horizon.
From Two to Three
Looking back on the hits and misses of 2022 (and towards 2023) as we celebrate Hypermatic's third birthday.
Strictly Business
A mid-year, independence day update on what we've been up to in 2022 so far, and what's on the horizon.
The Startup Formerly Known as Figmatic
tl;dr — Figmatic has just rebranded to “Hypermatic” — everything else is still the same.
From One to Two
Looking back on the hits and misses of 2021 (and towards 2022) as we celebrate Figmatic's second birthday.
Long mission, short hype
An update on what we've been up to in 2021 so far, and where we're heading in the future.
Professionally designed free Figma templates
Introducing our professionally designed Figma templates, 100% free for personal and commercial use.
No code Figma plugins
Spend more time focusing on your designs, and automate exporting code using these no code Figma plugins.
Building HTML emails 1000x faster with Figma
Spending over a year building our new HTML email Figma plugin, based on a decade of experience with eDMs.
From Zero to One
Looking back on the first year of Figmatic (and towards building the future), as we celebrate our 1st Birthday
Figma plugins for developers
Reduce the distance between design and development closer to zero with these Figma plugins.
Figma plugins for copywriters
Turn Figma into the ultimate design tool for copywriters and UX writers by using these Figma plugins.
Figma plugins for beginners
An easy to understand overview of what you need to know if you're new to Figma plugins (or just need a refresher).
Building a Figma converter plugin
After months (of 10 hour days) in development, our new Figma plugin converts designs from Figma to Sketch in one click.
The best Figma plugins for high performing design teams
An overview of the best premium Figma plugins (so far).
Nobody knows what DesignOps is
How the term “DesignOps” got corrupted and lost its way, and why it eventually won't matter anyway.
Agile is for losers
My decade long frustrations with seeing the destructive cult of Agile™ infiltrate digital agency environments
The need for “state driven design”
The narrow focus on “creating” design systems has largely distracted us from studying the endgame.
Password protection for Figma designs under NDA
Introducing an InVision alternative for securely sharing confidential designs with stakeholders in Figma.
Building a startup (in a pandemic)
Short summary of the lead up to starting my own company and the last 3 months since I founded Figmatic.
Crossing the design “handoff” chasm
The design “handoff” process to developers is a widely accepted practice, but I think it's fundamentally broken.
Figma vs Sketch (2020)
My personal comparisons as someone who used both Sketch and Figma for mutliple years.
The great stagnation of design and development workflows
The propaganda of "rapid progress" of design/development workflows inside companies.
How and why our team switched from Sketch to Figma
The blueprint I've successfully used to change things inside of a company.
It’s time to get back to the future
Why I quit my full time job as a lead developer to start Figmatic and build a new future for design and development.
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