Design Thursday #12
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
FigJam Updates
Figma has been busy, even before Config next month, they are releasing some new FigJam features, including:
- Custom templates
- Face stamps for team members
- Tagging other people via their @ in stickies
- Custom colors (which can use a predefined brand palette)
- Slack-like emoji picker by typing :
- User research integration (including Usertesting, Mixpanel, Maze and Great Question widgets and embeds)
- Productboard integration to quickly create insights from stickies
- New music
Some of the features are not available yet, but are coming soon.
Sketch 97 beta
A brand-new Sketch beta is available with Selection improvements, collections, multi-layer renaming, a new save dialog and other improvements.
Bezel state machine & timeline
In the past, a few other “Figma for 3D” tools were shared like Womp and Spline. Bezel, which has been available since late 2022 is another one you should know about. This week, they added a state machine and timeline for interactive AR or 3D experiences. It should look familiar if you have experience with Rive.
Framer Site Search
As teased a few weeks ago, search no more, because Site Search is here. By simply adding the new search component on any page, you can search your whole website. Saving you multiple clicks and lots of reading. It includes fuzzy search with instant results, 3 layout options, customizable animations, scope control and support for custom fonts, colors and icons.
Webflow Collection Components
Webflow has been launching great updates weekly, this week’s update: components can now be used in collection views. This is great when you blog post collections on multiple pages, like an overview related posts on a detail page or category overview. Update your component once and it’s updated on every page. Thanks, Webflow!
Material Design Update
Google I/O 2023 happened and of course included some new Material Design. Here’s a short run down of everything that’s new in Material. Also checkout the Making Material You site and film that Google released a few days before Google I/O.