Design Thursday #43
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Dashed Strokes and Elastic Interpolation
Rive animations now can create a dashed stroke effect, helpful for loading animations, placeholders or just cool outline effects. Another new feature is elastic interpolation support in state machines to allow for smooth and natural looking transitions between two animations.
Slide Deck outline with AI
A feature that was not available yet for Slides, is now available to use by everyone. Creating a new slide deck based on a FigJam board. By using AI, Figma will look at the content your board and generate a first outline for a presentation. Saving you some time to come up with the initial structure of the presentation.
Learn more about Slide Deck Outline
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Themed favicons and Apple touch icons
Framer now supports themed favicons so you can automatically change them between light and dark mode. You also have the option to add an Apple touch icon without custom code, this will make your site look like an app when added on the homescreen. They also made a lot of UI improvements for different controls like zooming and navigation. Plus they made some accessibility changes so omages will now be more accessible.
Change measurement text in Dev Mode
A small Dev Mode update but a good one. You can now change the text of measurements in Dev Mode. Previously it would be a fixed pixel value, but now you can add things like “1/2” or “80%”. Making it more flexible to handoff design to engineers.
Have a look at the Playground file
An inside look at Duolingo
Duocon, Duolingo’s yearly product update conference, took place this year celebrating everyone’s favourite green owl. While they always share some inspiring new features filled with emotion, animation and clever marketing. They also shared an inside look into their design, product and engineering teams. So take a peek behind the green curtain to learn how they work behind the scenes.
Want to learn more about Duolingo as a product and how they earn money? The Wall Street Journal made a must-watch video last month which gives you more insight into their business model and how they grew as a company.