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🟣 TOOOLS #14: Figma Motion, Product Design Psychology, prepros, GetCompress, Last Museum
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| Figma Motion puts an animation timeline right on the canvas, so you can design a screen and bring it to life in the same file instead of rebuilding it in a separate motion tool. Keyframe position, scale, rotation, and opacity by hand, drop in preset animations, or just describe the motion you want and let the Figma AI agent create the animation for you. Because motion now lives inside your components and variables, an animation you make once travels across every screen and every teammate's file, the same way color and type already do. |
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 | A free, 40-chapter online book by Wouter de Bres on the psychology behind product design, covering your own creative blind spots, how interfaces shape behavior, and how users really decide. |
 | A production workspace for brand and photo shoots that keeps moodboards, shotlists, call sheets, budgets, and crew in one place, from the first brief to wrap. |
 | A lightweight Mac app that compresses and converts images, video, GIFs, and PDFs in batches, up to 90 percent smaller and entirely offline, so your files never leave your machine. |
 | A search engine across more than 5.8 million museum artworks, browsable by artist, museum, and culture, a deep well of visual reference and inspiration. |
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| UX COLLECTIVE 📖 ARTICLE Rethinking Figma in an AI world A clear-eyed look at Config 2026 as Figma's high-stakes bet to stay essential while design shifts toward AI and code-native workflows. Useful context for anyone deciding how much to lean on Figma as the ground keeps moving. |
| DIVE CLUB 🎧 PODCAST The design renaissance (and identity crisis) Figma Chief Design Officer Loredana Crisan goes behind the scenes of Config 2026. A candid conversation about design's identity crisis and its renaissance as AI reshapes what the job actually is. |
| IT'S NICE THAT 📖 ARTICLE What happens when the gap between thinking and making closes? Seth Akkerman of Instrument and designer-coder Talia Cotton on how new tools are dissolving the lines between designer, developer, and engineer. A thoughtful read on what experimentation and craft mean once almost anyone can make. |
| UX COLLECTIVE 📖 ARTICLE The T-shaped UX professional is giving way to the polymath architect The classic T-shaped specialist is giving way to a generalist who can steer an entire workflow with strong judgment, as AI erodes the value of narrow expertise. A prompt to widen your range and trust your taste across more of the process. |
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| Adobe's new Firefly Graph lets you chain AI steps into reusable, shareable creative workflows |
| Getty Images, once a fierce AI critic, now feeds its licensed photo library into ChatGPT |
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| AN OBSERVATION Quietly, the canvas is growing knobs and dials, making you the director with a crew of AI |
Very recently Figma and Adobe both raced to fold AI agents and node-based workflows into their canvases. The pen is still there, but more of the day goes to directing the work, telling the agents what to make, watching them run, and adjusting the outcome. |
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