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Figma announced new AI-powered motion graphics and shader tools at Config 2026, enabling designers to create animations and visual effects via natural language prompts.
Covering Figma's CONFIG 2026 live from San Francisco, sharing updates in a thread.
A tweet celebrating Figma Config day, featuring a morning walk with Rasmus Andersson (rsms) back to the company's origins.
A thread listing 10 websites that automate common work tasks such as slide creation, diagramming, search, lesson planning, image editing, website building, file conversion, whiteboard-to-code, and meeting notes.
Linear design engineer Emil Kowalski compiled over 90 animation terms across 12 categories to help users better describe animation effects to AI. Additionally, the author used Claude to build a bilingual preview site to facilitate understanding of each term's actual effect.
The article argues that the next frontier of visual AI is generating code (e.g., SVG, HTML/CSS, React components) instead of raw pixels, enabling editability, iteration, and integration into professional design and development workflows.
Adobe's Firefly AI Assistant, a conversational agent integrated into design apps like Photoshop and Illustrator, aims to streamline busywork while keeping creative control in users' hands. The beta version shows promising but imperfect results, with a transparent, step-by-step approach to edits.
A developer praises Framer and composer 2.5 for enabling rapid creation of an interactive hero component within an hour.
A Twitter thread by @nurijanian showcases design skills and tools for working with AI agents, including an update to the Impeccable style tool and a Refactoring UI plugin, with detailed changelog covering live mode, detector rules, and cross-platform fixes.
Preview of a course about the open-source design tool Open Design, emphasizing its advantages over Claude Design (lower token consumption, richer design system and SKILL), covering the entire process from requirements to component encapsulation.
Someone created a magic tool designmd.me that lets you extract a complete design system (colors, fonts, components, layout) by simply entering a website URL, automatically generating a DESIGN.md file. Combined with the awesome-design-md repository (already 54k stars), you can quickly replicate the UI of top brands.
Arkiv is a new product focused on modern asset protection for designers.
Figma integrates AI throughout its platform—from text editing and image generation to Figma Make (a prompt-to-app tool) and Dev Mode MCP Server—positioning AI as both a platform shift and core capability that empowers designers and developers while maintaining human craft and control.
Claude Design receives a major upgrade, greatly expanding the template library, removing usage restrictions, and introducing design system features. It supports creating websites, slides, documents, animations, and 3D objects among other creative assets, and can collaborate with Claude Code to export to production environments.