Design Thursday #40
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Webflow page building and design approvals
Webflow is making it easier for marketeers and less-technical people to build Webflow pages. With an easy drag-and-drop interface to with blocks that have been approved already. On top of that design approvals are also added. So you can select reviews who can have a look at changes before publishing them. Both features are now available for Enterprise plans.
Spring based animations in LottieFiles for Figma
LottieFiles’ Figma plugin now supports spring based animations for more expressive motion in your products. You can customise the parameters for full control over the animation and export it for Lottie.
Quality of life updates
- Figma has added 450 new Google fonts which you can select in the font picker dropdown under “Google Fonts (8/24 update)”
- Framer has redesigned their menus to include a search function, scrolling and keyboard navigation support. On top of that they also added a new macOS app icon.
- Rive now has a Matte option when exporting transparent GIFs so they have super smooth edges
Accessibility testing with Abra
Abra launched their accessibility testing tool this week, which has been in beta for a while. It allows you to automatically test the accessibility of your apps. Making it easier to validate if you have implemented new features correctly.
New Product: Seline
Seline is a new EU-based, privacy first, analytics tool to keep track of your websites page visits, events and sources. Best of all, it doesn’t require cookies, so you can track your website without any struggles. Seline isn't the only privacy focused analytics tool, some great alternatives are Umami and Plausible.
Making icons fresh
iA, creator of Ai Writer & Ai Presenter published a great post about redesigning their app icons. It shows different version they explored and they take you along in their thought process.
