🟣 TOOOLS #6: Wonder, Figma Draw, TUIStudio, Bitgrain, Feather

   TOOOL OF THE WEEK

   ALSO ON THE RADAR

Figma Draw

A new illustration mode inside Figma Design with vector brushes, dynamic strokes, pattern fills, and text on a path. No more bouncing to a separate app for marks and textures.

TUIStudio

A Figma-like visual editor for Terminal UI applications, with drag-and-drop components, ready-made color themes, and a live preview before anyone writes a line of code.

Bitgrain

A template-driven editor for textured, dithered visuals that feel handmade. Built for quick social posts and graphics, with enough craft underneath to keep designers happy, all in the browser.

Feather

A photo editor where the AI runs entirely on your device. Generative fill, magic selection, and smart stacking all happen locally, so your shoots never touch a cloud.

   A FEW READS & LISTENS

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

You skipped the first question. Now you're adding AI.

Argues most teams jump to "how do we add AI" without first asking what the product is for now that intelligence can live inside it. A useful gut check before bolting another assistant onto a screen.

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

10 UI patterns that won't survive the AI shift

Maps which familiar interface patterns are losing their reason to exist as AI takes over the execution work, and which ones become more valuable. A solid framework for deciding what to keep, simplify, or retire in your own product.

UX COLLECTIVE  📖 ARTICLE

The right touch: mapping AI presence to user intent

Argues that knowing when an AI should step back is a more important design call than which model to use or how to prompt it. A practical lens for deciding how loud or quiet your assistant should be.

UX TOOLS  🎬 YOUTUBE

This is Design At The Most AI-Installed Company

Diego Zaks walks through how design works at Ramp, where the team has folded AI into daily craft so deeply that Anthropic itself paid them a visit. A behind-the-scenes look at what an AI-native design org actually does day to day.

   UPDATES & NEWS

Anthropic launches Claude for Creative Work with new connectors for Adobe, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, and SketchUp

Cinema 4D for iPad opens its beta for sign-ups, bringing full 3D workflows and Redshift to M2 and newer iPads

Gemini can now generate Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDFs, Word, and Excel files directly from a prompt

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs launch a $1.5B AI services firm to challenge traditional consultancies

   ONE MORE THING ...

A THOUGHT WORTH SITTING WITH

"Local-first is the new privacy badge."