Design Thursday #92
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
User groups and @ connectors in Figma Make
In Figma, you can now define user groups to quickly invite multiple people to a design file, make a prototype, or just mention the group in a notification, so everyone gets notified at once. Let’s say you want to check with other designers, make a group, mention them as @designers, and they should get the notification.
Figma Make added connectors a while ago to bring MCP support to Make. You can now easily @mention a connector to get access to it using a prompt. Which should be much faster than explaining what to do in a tool. Also, Claude Opus 4.6 is now also available as an experimental model in Figma Make.
Webflow Connector in Claude
The Webflow Connector is now available to use in Claude, which lets you do all sorts of things like bulk updating CMS items, running an SEO or content audit, cleaning up your design system, and more.
Webflow AI builder improvements
Webflow's AI site builder also got some updates. The actual tool has been redesigned to be easier to use. You can now create a multi-page site (up to five pages), and it will have built-in animations.
Image to Video in Jitter
Jitter's AI assistant, Oli, got some new skills. When you add an image in a Jitter file, you will see a "Generate video" button in the Animate tab. This will generate an animation video to your timeline so you can add some more motion to your static images.
Accessibility Intelligence with Stark
Stark launched source code integration this week, bringing accessibility validation directly into your code editor and terminal. It will give you real-time feedback while you are writing code or an assistant is doing it for you. The ESLint plugin will show accessibility violations with auto-fixes and detailed explanations. It will work for React, Vue, Angular, React Native, and Flutter. Those last ones have platform-specific rules for mobile.
Digital Asset Management in LottieFiles
LottieFiles is expanding beyond animation backup and creation, but is now supporting a range of other file types like Photoshop, Illustrator, SVG, images, ... Their goal is not just to back them up and gather them in one place, but to keep track of version history and approval status.
Export Google Stitch to Figma
Up until now, only one mode in Google Stitch has an export option for Figma, which sadly created the most basic designs. But great news, they now support Figma export as editable layers for all designs. Keep in mind, it's still in preview, so you might have to fix some things yourself if it doesn't export correctly.
FlutterFlow Designer
This might be FlutterFlow's biggest release in a while. They added a UI generation designer mode. Which looks more similar to Figma than the previous FlutterFlow experience. With a prompt, you can generate screens or components. What's great is that it's apparently really fast. They claim to be the fastest UI generator in the world, and it doesn't just generate static assets; you can import it as real code into FlutterFlow.
ProtoPie AI
ProtoPie's v10 release brings the first ProtoPie AI beta, where you can set up triggers and logic with prompts. Also new in this update are inline annotation blocks to add some documentation in your file so it's easier to handoff or work on it in the future. Plus some updates for the formula editor, which received a redesign for better usability.
Framer CMS Components
CMS Components are now available in Framer. They let you select and add any component inside the Rich Text CMS field. Which can greatly customize blog posts, work cases, and more. Bringing a lot more flexibility to CMS templates.
Codex for PMs and Designers
OpenAI released their Codex app last week. Now they've also published a few videos on how product managers and designers can use the app. First, a recap introduction, and you can find the role-specific videos here as well.