Sketch Copenhagen

Sketch released a big update this week, which was previously in beta. It brings an all-new design for the entire application, adds wrap for stacks, one-click image background removal, and Workspace improvements. The design is the biggest aspect of this update; it's now fully in line with macOS Tahoe with a liquid glass look. It's not just a visual update, but it rethinks the interface, with, for example, a very nice focus mode for layers.

Explore to Sketch Copenhagen

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Rive Multi-touch

You can now use multi-touch interactions in your Rive animations, or should I say experiences? Because at this point, Rive is starting to become like an app builder rather than an animation tool. This can be used, for example, for dual joystick interactions, with more multi-touch interactions coming soon with scripting.

Learn more about Multi-touch in Rive

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Figma Make Connectors

Figma quietly released a new Figma Make feature, which they teased a while ago: connectors. It's their implementation of MCP, where you can get context from different tools like Confluence, Jira, Notion, ... This could be great to include documentation while creating a prototype, so you no longer have to manually include it in your prompt. Just connect the tool, paste a link, and see the magic happen.

Learn more about Connectors in Figma Make

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A screenshot of Figma Make: on the left, a chat where someone pulls a product document from Notion, and on the right, a draft landing page for “Dog & Bean Club.”
Visual from Figma's documentation

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Framer Ticker Effect

Framer has a new Ticker Effect which lets you add repeating animations for text, images, or any element you want. What's great is it also works with the CMS out of the box and can be applied to any Stack element. You can tweak the effect for each breakpoint, so it's responsive on any screen size.

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Rive data binding & Figma styles import in Play

Play 4.1 has been released, which brings support for data binding of Rive animations. This will let you change colors, text, or other values on the fly without having to bake them into your animation.

Figma styles can now also be imported into Play as styles by downloading them with Token Studio as JSON and importing them back into Play.

Read about all Play updates

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A graphic for Rive’s 4.1 release, showing a colorful animated scene on a phone next to a dark control panel that represents data-binding settings. The text on the image says "4.1 Release" "Rive Data Binding in Play"
Visual from Play's release notes

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Gradient strokes in LottieFiles Creator

A feature we saw a few weeks ago in Jitter now also makes its way to LottieFiles Creator: gradient strokes. They are now fully supported and give you even more options to create visually interesting animations.

There are also some improvements when importing image layers from existing Lottie animations, and image layers now can be animated via the properties panel and timeline.

Learn more about the latest Creator updates

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Figma Sites CMS

Figma Sites has a big new feature, CMS. Which makes it a lot more powerful to build websites with dynamic content.

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Creating UIs with GTP 5.1

A deep dive from Design+Code to show the improvements in UI generation of GPT 5.1. It should work a lot faster and give better, more unique results compared to previous models.

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