Design Thursday #85

Extended collections

Figma released extended collections for enterprise plans. This allows you to create more complex design systems with multiple themes that extend from each other. This also includes exporting modes to JSON following the W3C design system guidelines.

The feature is currently being rolled out, so you might not see it yet.

Rive updates

A few updates have been added in the Rive editor to make editing and sharing animations a bit easier. Here are a few of the updates:

Library triggers can now be selected from the State Machine
Images will now only be added on the stage where they were dragged over
Path effects (trim path, dash, ...) can now be stacked
Path effects can now be applied on fills
Transitions and states can now be batch-reconnected
Time controls have been added for State Machines
A multitouch toggle is now available in share links

Jitter AI Brainstorm

Jitter added a cool new AI feature to make it faster to add motion to your ideas. You can explore different directions in just a few seconds. You can do this easily in Jitter by opening a design, pressing the ✨ icon, selecting a mood, and generating a draft. You will no longer need to manually animate everything, which is great for faster animation generation.

Adobe Project Graph

Adobe is working on a new tool "Project Graph“. It’s a node-based editor that lets you connect different edits together to generate new images or videos. This will let you mix different tools to generate assets more easily. This also generates a custom UI to make it easier to adapt different parameters for a specific workflow, so you no longer have to rely on the default UI of your image/video editor.

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