Design Thursday #18
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Penpot Fest
Penpot, the open source Figma alternative, organized their 2-day Penpot Fest in Barcelona to talk about all things design. Best thing, all presentations are now available on Youtube. So if you want to learn about designing for open source projects, designing communities or features like Penpot’s brand new grid layout make sure to watch some of the videos.
Webflow publishing permissions
Webflow has updated their publishing permission flow with a simple new toggle that let’s you turn on or off the publishing rights for an editor on your team. Giving you more control on what get’s published on your website.
More info about publishing permissions
ProtoPie custom fonts
This has been a features that has been requested for a while an now it’s here. Custom fonts in ProtoPie. In the past you could already use custom fonts, but they would brake once you shared your prototype with someone else who didn’t have the fonts on their device. This is now possible, so everyone will see your prototype as you intended.
Midjourney Panning
Midjourney added yet another feature, panning. After generating an image, you get some quick actions with some arrow emoji. By clicking them you can pan your generated image to see what’s on the left, right, top or bottom to generate more context.
Mobbin interactive mode
Mobbin was already great to look up individual screens to find design patterns of existing apps, but with the new interactive mode it will become even better to explore flows of apps and websites. You can turn on interactive mode after selecting an app or website and clicking in the top right corner.
Jitter for teams
Jitter is now available for teams so you can work together on your motion design. You can work in real time together and work on the same files, review directly in Jitter and handoff to other members of the team so they can change the content or inspect the animations.
Framer × Fontshare
Fontshare has some of the best free fonts available and is a great alternative to Google Fonts. And what’s great, all fonts are now available in Framer. So you don’t have to manually download and upload them again. Just select the font you want and get designing.
Read more about the Fontshare integration
Understanding SVG paths
We use SVGs all the time as assets, but did you ever wonder how they work or how you can create one with just code? Wonder no more, this guide created by Nanda Syahrasyad takes a deep dive in SVG paths, so you will understand them just a bit better.