Design Thursday #27
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Framer Cookie Banner Component
Framer created a new Cookie Banner component to manage cookie consent through Google Tag Manager. You have control over how it behaves, when it triggers, link region specific cookie policies, use your custom design, …
CMS updates
There are also some CMS updates available like required fields, max length and bold/italic Text Styles options.
Spline Team Libraries (aka 3D Design Systems)
Spline introduced team libraries to create your 3D design system. You can share it with your team so you can share assets and components.
Procreate Dreams
Procreate introduced their brand new motion design app: Procreate Dreams. It rethinks how an animation app should work with touch controls in mind. It’s a very impressive app, which will be release November 22, 2023.
Figma Little Big Updates
As part of Figma’s weekly updates, they released the first 4 updates last Thursday. The focus was mostly components.
- Filter search results when searching in assets
- Components have better thumbnails in the assets tab
- Components will show more details like how many variants it has
- There is a new playground component modal with documentation about the component and an interactive playground
You can expect the next set of updates to be released later today.
Sketch Annotations on iPhone & iPad
Sketch’s mobile app got quite a few updates recently, in the latest update it got support for annotations. You can open a file in canvas or artboard view and leave comments on any part of the design.
FlutterFlow 4.0 & other updates
FlutterFlow announced quite a few new features during their first conference. On top of that they also release other updates: multi-select dropdown, reorderable lists, firebase performance monitoring, pincode upgrades, custom 404 errors, deployment history, customizable pull to refresh, enhanced choice chips options, …
New in FlutterFlow 4.0
- Visual Branching
- Automated Testing
- FlutterFlow Marketplace
- Cloud Functions
- Screenshot Generator
- FlutterFlow for iPad
Photoshop: Generative fill & expand
Photoshop’s AI features are now out of beta and available for all Photoshop users.
iPhone 15 product bezels
Apple made the new iPhone 15 product bezels which you can use for your mockups on their website.
Action button
Speaking of iPhone 15, the Pro models got a new action button, which can be used to trigger actions from your app. So keep it in mind when designing your iPhone app.
After Effects 3D Workspace
After Effects latest beta version introduces a 3D workspace. You can import 3D models and use them together with the camera, lights and other 3D layers. You can use images as a lighting source, to create a realistic lighting environment.
Read all about 3D in After Effects
Upcoming event: Inclusive Design 24
This 24h long event will be live streamed on Youtube and includes talks all about inclusive design. It includes a long list of great talks, so tune in to learn something new and make your design more inclusive.