Design Thursday #46
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Webflow releases
Webflow announced some big new features during this year's Webflow Conf. Together with some navigation UI changes and style variants for components, there were 3 bigger feature updates.
AI Assistant
Starting with AI Assistant, which let's you generate styled content which let's you quickly create new sections for your webpages. It also includes generating copy with the option to add a prompt to rewrite existing copy, CMS items will also be generate by Webflow's AI assistant.
Optimize
Webflow Optimize allows you to conduct A/B tests to see which version of your website works better and has better conversion. Personalization let's you create personal content for users like messages, CTAs, content, offers, ... and third AI optimization which creates variants in real time using AI to check different versions of copy for example.
Analyze
Webflow Analyze is Webflow's native analytics solution automatically let's you see visitor insights without a code-free setup and best of all it's built with privacy in mind.
Rive
You can now set default interpolation for keyframes at file-level, making it easier to create consistent animations. There's also a small update for maximum file asset sizes, it's now possible to upload assets up to 250 or 500 MB (depending on your plan).
Jitter Blur
The latest update in Jitter now allows you to add blur to layers and animations. This new feature enables you to add depth of field, create dreamy gradient blurs, add bokeh effects, create transitions and text animations, apply mask feathers, and more.
Take a look at the latest in Jitter
Adobe
Generative Expand in Premier
This feature was in earlier preview this year, but now more widely available to everyone. With generative expand you can increase the length of video footage, correct eye movement and even audio. There are some limitations on video size (1920x1080 or 1280x720 resolutions and 16:9 aspect ratio) and audio formats (mono and stereo) however in this first release. But what’s great you can use all new footage and audio in commercial projects because the generated content is trained by approved video and audio. So you won’t have any copyright issues.
Learn more about Generative Expand
Firefly Text-to-Video
Firefly’s text to video feature is now available to use by anyone and allows you to create video clips based on a text prompt. You can choose from different camera controls, use a reference image and even work from an existing static image. There are a lot of great examples in the announcement article, so check them out to get some inspiration.
View all Text-to-Video examples
New Illustrator features
- Improved image trace: Adobe improved image trace to make higher quality vector objects from bitmap images. This should make it easier to use high quality assets in your projects.
- Create objects on a path: Quickly attach, arrange, and move objects of any kind along any shaped path.
- Mockup: Create realistic mockups with the improved Mockup tool.
New in Maze
Maze unveiled a set of new features at Disco Conf, while also recapping some features that they have released earlier in the year. Here's what new:
- Goal-based and free explore tasks: you can now choose how users should explore your prototype so you can end them after a specific goal has been reached or allow them to roam freely.
- Sankey diagrams: with the new diagrams you can see how users navigated your prototype and how they reached success or where they dropped off.
- Interview Studies: Simplifying modified research by providing scheduling, recruiting and AI-driven analysis.
- Variant comparison: Compare up to five versions in a single study to see which design works best for users.
- Atomic Evidence: Coming in the future, atomic evidence aims to embed research in the whole product development process.
Deep dive: Prototype testing with Maze
Maze also has webinar to go over some new features coming up on November 13.