Design Thursday #102
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Lovable Desktop App
Lovable is now available as a native mac app. You get the full web experience plus local MCP server support, multi-project tabs, and keyboard shortcuts. The local MCP will be quite useful as it lets Lovable connect directly to tools running on your computer, like Figma Desktop and Paper, so it can read your design files and use that context while building.
Lovable Mobile App
Lovable also launched a mobile app for iOS and Android, so you can keep building from wherever you are. You can queue up prompts via voice or text, let the agent run builds in the background, and get notified when it’s ready to review. Projects sync seamlessly between phone and desktop, so you never lose your place.
Lovable for iOS · Lovable for Android

Adobe for Creativity in Claude
Adobe launched a new connector for Claude that lets you run multi-step creative workflows directly from a prompt. It can use over 50+ Creative Cloud tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Firefly, Premiere, Express, Lightroom, and more. You describe what you want to create and the connector figures out which tools to use and in what order. Retouching portraits, resizing video for social, designing a post from scratch,... it handles the execution so you can focus on direction.
Learn more about Adobe for Claude

Multi-Animations in Lottie Creator
Lottie Creator now supports multiple animations inside a single dotLottie file. For example you can put loading, success, error, and idle states all in one file instead of five separate ones. This means only one file in the code base. So if you have shared assets across animations this will also keep file size as low as possible.
Rive Editor Updates
A couple of Rive updates were released this week. Two that stand out to make editing easier:
- You can now swap fill and stroke with Shift+X, or right-click to convert between them directly.
- You can right-click to disable or enable state machine transitions so you no longer have to remove and create them again.

Figma Updates
Referencing images
Adding references when using Make Image or Edit Image just got a lot more flexible. Instead of only being able to upload files, you can now click “Add reference” on almost any node on the canvas, copy and paste images directly into the prompt box, or drag and drop files in.
More tools in Draw
Figma Draw also got some updates this week. Auto layout is now accessible directly in Draw without switching to Design mode, there’s a new dedicated text on a path tool, and you can right-click to separate text and vector into independent layers. For brushes you can Cmd-click a stroke to sample its color and style, set a gradient and blend mode before starting a stroke, and control X and Y noise independently for directional texture effects.
FigJam quality of life
A few handy FigJam updates: cell merging in tables, text color support inside cells, cleaner arrows, drag-to-flip shapes, and a recenter button for large canvases.
FigJam as your coding agent’s whiteboard
FigJam now works as a diagram canvas for your coding agent via MCP. You can generate architecture diagrams using the updated `generate_diagram` tool, paste Mermaid.js code directly onto the canvas to render it, or use the new `figma-use-figjam` skill to read and write to a board. There’s also a `get_figjam` tool to summarize an existing board and give you next steps.
Claude for Creative Work
Anthropic announced a set of new connectors focused on creative tools, including Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, Splice. Blender’s connector gives Claude access to its Python API so you can analyze scenes, build custom scripts, and add tools to Blender’s interface directly. Autodesk Fusion lets you create and modify 3D models through conversation, and Affinity automates batch production tasks like layer renaming and file exports.
DESIGN.md open sourced
Google open sourced DESIGN.md, a markdown format for describing a visual identity to coding agents which they use in Google Stitch. It gives agents a structured understanding of your design system so they can apply it consistently when generating code. The video below goes deep on how to use it alongside tools like Neuform and Claude Design to get results that actually feel on-brand.
FlutterFlow MCP
FlutterFlow now has MCP support. It can read pages, components, data, actions, and theme, then plan and apply changes directly.
