Design Thursday#73
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Figma Buzz, Make and Sites updates
Figma Buzz now has a built-in sidebar to access all Unsplash images, so you don’t have to leave your workflow to add a fitting image. Make and Sites got a small but great update that lets you set a password on shared sites or prototypes. Making it more secure to share something.
Vector Masks in Hana
Hana now supports vector masks of any shape that you can use to make more complex animations. All masks can be animated and are interactive.
Multiple LottieFiles updates
- Inline font support: you can now embed fonts in your Lottie file via After Effects
- You can now import Lottie animations with layer effects (like Gaussian blur) in After Effects.
- Choose between render settings (SVG or ThorVG) in Webflow to preview and select your preferred renderer
- Save changes from Figma to LottieFiles. Use the same name, and the plugin will automatically detect if you have an animation with the same name and ask you to update the old one

Nano Banana aka Gemini Flash 2.5
Google released their latest image model, Gemini Flash 2.5, also known as codename Nano Banana. It’s a more advanced image model that features reasoning, and its main selling point is its great text-based image editing capabilities.
Gemini Flash 2.5 in Firefly
You can now use Gemini Flash 2.5 in Adobe Firefly. Google’s model can be used as an addition to Adobe’s own commercially safe model. This allows you to get more creative freedom and is one of the many third-party models available in Firefly, joining models from OpenAI, Black Forest Labs, Runway, Pika, Ideogram, Luma AI, Moonvalley, and more.
Read more about Gemini in Firefly

MagicPath
MagicPath is a new design tool that is fully AI-powered. What makes it special is that all your designs are automatically interactive.