Design Thursday #41
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Inclusive Design 24
Happening right now: Inclusive Design 24, a yearly online live streamed conference focused on inclusive design and accessibility. All talks are live streamed on Youtube and available to watch later on right after they aired.
Check our all recording of Inclusive Design 24
Image export quality
A small, but great improvement in Figma when it comes to exporting JPEGs or PDFs. You can now choose between one of three quality settings Low, Medium or High when exporting. Making it easier to share assets with lower file sizes without having to use additional tools.
Simplified spring animations
Framer has updated their Spring Animations panel to make it even easier to get started and with just 2 properties you can now create your physics based animations. By default they will now be based on time for reliable results every time, but you can quickly switch to Physics mode to go beyond the basics and make your animation come to live even more.
Managing variables better & AI CMS items
You can now reorder variables in Webflow making it now possible to clean up your design tokens and order them as you like. On top of that you can also do some bulk actions like grouping or deleting multiple variables at once. There is also a small update for the CMS, which now allows you to generate sample items with AI. This can be useful when designing a new website without having all the content yet. This first release doesn't have image generation yet, but it will be added later on.
Firefly video
Adobe is adding AI video generation to Firefly later this year allowing you to go from text to video and image to video. The shared a preview of the latest model, to showcase what will be possible to generate. Premiere Pro will also get Generative Extend similar to Photoshop's AI feature but for video. You can now signup for the waitlist to get early access.