The portfolio is becoming a living sketchbook
Figma Community riffs give designers a new way to publish experiments, animations and prototypes without packaging them as finished case studies.
A lighter-weight publishing format could make process visible again.
The Story
Figma’s new Community riffs let people share ideas, animations, prototypes and experiments directly through their profiles. That matters because most creative portfolios still over-represent polished outcomes and under-represent the thinking that produced them.
For an independent studio, this is a useful middle layer between private process and formal publishing. A riff can show a typographic test, a half-built interaction or a visual principle without pretending it is a complete project.
Studio Wensday could use the format as a public lab: small studies, observations and reusable fragments that build trust over time. The value is not volume; it is giving people a clear sense of how you notice, test and decide. ([figma.com](https://www.figma.com/release-notes/?utm_source=openai))
Studio Wensday Angle
Publish the thinking before it hardens into a case study.