Design Thursday #23
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Framer Scroll Direction
Framer added a new trigger for Animations, you can now use onScroll to start an animation. There are also quite some workflow improvements like a new action for finding styles and components, swap layers with Paste In Place and lots of bug fixes.
Rive improvements
New in Rive is a tagging system to indicate what a layer or group is used for. A new property to set letter spacing, and quite some improvements and bug fixes like pinch-to-zoom on the animation timeline and right clicking to download previous revisions.
FlutterFlow
FlutterFlow added 10 new features, here are a few of them:
- Set custom duration for splash screens or remove a splash screen on web
- Add hero animations to components
- Set custom scroll bar and status bar colors
- Set a minimum and maximum size for autosize text
Jitter templates
Jitter has a set of brand new templates to start animations from. Starting with phones, tablets and laptops to make creating animations even faster.
Campsite Grids & SVG support
Grid layout is back in Campsite to get a better overview of what your team has been working on. On top of that, you can now also share SVG files.
Stark improvements
The latest Stark update makes it even easier to build accessible products. You can now add ARIA notes on your design so you can describe what screen readers should read out. You can also annotate headers, get suggestions for touch target sizes and there are multiple improvements to Sidekick, Stark’s AI assistant.
Play iOS editor
Play started to rethink their iOS prototyping app to work on Mac a while back, now they also updated the iOS editor. This makes it possible to create prototypes again on your iPhone or iPad and work simultaneously on your Mac.
LottieLab
LottieFiles’ animation tool Lottie Creator is now called LottieLab and is available in beta. Easily import your Figma design or start from a blank canvas in LottieLab. Create your animation and you are done to implement it in production.
Clover joining Figma
Clover, a workspace app similar to Notion, is joining Figma. The app allows you to create notes, tasks, whiteboards and is a daily planner. The team will be joining Figma and the current product will be sunset. This might mean Figma is looking into more ways to let people build products more efficiently.
Clippy Figma Plugin
Clippy is a new Figma plugin created by Rogie King. The plugin allows you to add attachments to your Figma files so everyone in the team can download them. Think: fonts, documentation, high resolution assets, … The great thing, the plugin also works in Dev Mode, so engineers can also use it to access all attachments.