Design Thursday #4
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
FigJam Tables
Tables are here, I repeat tables are here! Click the brand new tables button to create a table in your FigJam board. Enter data, reorder or add new rows/columns, style your cells and use your drawing tools to enhance your table. You can even copy and paste data from Google Sheets, Numbers or Excel and it will automatically be displayed in a table. Don't limit yourself to boring data, you can even use it to document color tokens.
Learn how Figma went about creating tables
Spline Viewer
Spline created Spline Viewer to show off your 3D designs on a website. You can interact with the canvas, set scroll events and fine-tune settings for great experiences.
Learn how to use Spline Viewer
Stark vision simulator
Stark added 5 more vision simulators to test your designs even better for different vision types. The new simulators include: yellowing, loss of contrast, ghosting, bright light and tunnel vision.
You can find the new simulators in the browser, Figma and Sketch plugins.
Learn more about vision simulators
Sketch One-layer-design challenge
Over the past week, Sketch has been sharing one-layer-designs. How does it work? You can 1 layer and have to create a design with fills, shadows, gradients, … Here's a great example:
Want to take on the challenge? You have until March 17 to submit your design
Maze Live Suite
Maze introduced Live Suite, a set of tools to measure usability on live websites. It allows you to gather continuous product learnings. The tools includes heat maps, path analysis, feedback prompts, …
Quick updates
- You can now import CSV data in the Framer CMS
- Use CMS data in custom attributes in Webflow
- Send a feedback request in Campsite
- Pixelmator added pixel-perfect design mockups
Video of the week
Figma's Yuhki Yamashita gave talk at Web Summit 2022 about his article Welcome to the WIP. It's about how digital products are always work in progress and never finished. This can bring challenges the design process, as everything is always evolving. Throughout the talk he goes over these 3 questions: How do I review work when it's constantly changing? How do I give feedback to work when it's always evolving? And how do I know when it's done and ready to ship? He shares some useful tips for every question, so watch the video and improve your WIP.