Midjourney Inpainting

Midjourney added a new inpaint feature, that allows you to draw over your generated image and replace it with a brand new prompt. After upscaling your generated image, you can start using it by clicking "Vary (Region)". Make sure you have remix turned on, otherwise you won't be able to use this new feature.


Spline responsive scenes

Spline now supports responsive 3D scenes, which is something you won’t often see in 3D tools. This makes it very adaptive to use your scenes on different device when embedding it on a website. There is a new Screen Resize event to trigger actions, you can create custom breakpoints and it works with all interactive exports.

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Sketch’s new Prototype player

Sketch completely rebuild their prototype player on the web app to improve loading times and make sure your designs are displayed more accurately. On top of that they also released v98 of the Mac app with improved Figma import.

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Figma Variables updates

During Config, Figma released a first beta version of Variables and now they are adding some new updates to make them even more powerful. Included in this update:

  • Scoping: You can define what a variable can be used for, for example a color that can only be used as a text fill or a border color. This will make it easier to select the right variables.
  • Multi-edit variables: Select multiple variables at once and change them all together.
  • Code syntax: As a designer you might want to keep your variable names as clean as possible, but that can also result in inaccurate names that are different from what is used in code. You can now set custom names for each platform (web, iOS, Android) so that the right variable names show up during handoff.
  • Modes in sublayers of instances: Previously you could only change the mode for an instance itself, you can now also change the mode for layers inside your instance. For example when changing to dark mode, maybe an icon shouldn’t change color, you can now set it to Light mode while the rest of the component uses Dark mode.

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Jambot: FigJam’s AI assistant

Figma released their ChatGPT companion widget for FigJam. Add the widget from to your board, select a function, add a prompt and Jambot will do the work. You can use this to create mindmaps, generate ideas, brainstorm or whatever you can think of.

Try Jambot

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Screenshot of the Jambot widget which shows different options: ideate, quick question, teach me about this, give me, rabbit hole, similar stuff, summarize, rewrite this, turn this into a, code this up, custom


Designing for visionOS

Design+Code uploaded a new in-depth guide on how to design for visionOS, the operating system for Apple’s new mixed reality headset releasing in 2024. Get tips and useful guidelines to get designing for the new platform.

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Accessibility for designers

Penpot collaborated with Stéphanie Walter on a guide to design with accessibility in mind. You might already know quite a bit of these tips, but I can’t stress enough how important accessibility is in design. So make sure to have a look to refresh your mind.

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