Design Thursday #3
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Framer Community
Framer launched their community platform this week to replace the Discord chat. Making it much more searchable to help users learn more about Framer. You can now also start the Bootcamp course, a great way to discover how to build a website with Framer.
Figma Creator Fund
Figma started officially supporting paid community files, plugins and widgets. A great way to monitize community resources with official support and payments integrated in Figma itself. Of course free resources are what made Community great, so Figma is set to keep adding free resources. By introducing the Community Creator Fund they want to support creators that have a great idea for a free resources and Figma will help them along the way by funding the project.
Figma Sidebar
You might have noticed a refresh of the Figma projects sidebar. You can now create sections to group teams, projects and files.
If you don't see the new tabbar, don't forget to restart the app once in a while (looking at you tab hoarders 👀).
Webflow Variable fonts
Webflow added variable font support late last year, now they have an exciting update ready including full control over all variations in Interactions, grouping custom fonts and a few usability improvements for configuration.
Everything new for variable fonts
UX Ghent
UX Ghent is hosting their editorial edition meetup at our offices in Ghent. Look forward to talks from Ways of words, Medium and VRT NWS.
Introduction to FigJam
Our brand new course, based on our FigJam introduction sessions is now available for everyone. Get to know the interface and learn how to get to most out of every tool.
Apple Writing Guidelines
As a brand new inclusion of the HIG, writing guidelines have been added to make sure you have the best copy possible.
Explore the guidelines
Prime Video Brand Refresh
Pentagram worked on the brand refresh for Amazon Prime Video. It's full of motion, bold design and a brand new typeface Prime Video Sharp. Did I mention the motion 🤩
Video of the week
If you are crazy about color, this video is for you. Material Design explains how Material 3's color space (HCT: hue, chroma, tone) works.