Ruxandra Duru works with Google designers focusing on the intersection of color, emotion, and UX design. ​“After years of what we could call a color fixation, I’ve developed a three-step approach to color theory. My secret to making color more pleasurable and intentional — and much less scary — has to do with balancing, relating, and completing your colors.”

Elie Majorel shares the playbook of prototyping with AI tools, allowing other designers to spend less time on appearance and more time on impact. ​“One Sunday I opened Miro, sketched a few boxes for a new agent search, and copied the flow into Claude. Claude wrote a clear spec. I pasted that prompt into Lovable, pressed generate, and two hours later a working React repo ran in a sandbox. Engineers forked the code the week after. Leaders clicked the demo and said keep going. Two hours from idea to running product. No Figma layers. No endless handoff.”

Romina recorded a quick walkthrough on how to build clickable prototypes using Figma MCP and Cursor.

Designer Advocate Alexia Danton shares the team’s favorite prompts, pro tips, and best practices for using Figma Make to help you get the most out of the recently launched prompt-to-code feature.

Vercel introduced the new design mode in v0 — quickly tweak generated copy, typography, layout, colors, styling, and mode. These changes do not require spending credits or waiting for an LLM. Tailwind and shadcn/​ui are supported out of the box.

You can now add custom interactions and animations to your Figma Sites using code layers. Code layers let you create, edit, and manage live code on your site. Use built-in AI chat or write your own code with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind support.

Apple Keynote introducing new Liquid Glass design language, year-based version names, Foundation Models API, and significant updates to iPadOS.

WWDC session introducing Liquid Glass. ​“Get to know the design principles of Liquid Glass, explore its core optical and physical properties, and learn where to use it and why.”

“Dive deeper into the new design system to explore key changes to visual design, information architecture, and core system components. Learn how the system reshapes the relationship between interface and content, enabling you to create designs that are dynamic, harmonious, and consistent across devices, screen sizes, and input modes.”

Apple updated HIG with all the latest design techniques.

Apple slightly updated the corner rounding of their icon template. Time to update all the icons!

John LePore explains refraction — light passes from one material to the next — for non-3D designers.

Allan Yu imitates the Liquid Glass effect in Figma by using the new texture feature in Figma Draw. A few other takes using similar techniques by Camden, Luis Ouriach, Brett from Designjoy, Max, and Ben South — some are with the Figma files as well.

Of course, the elephant in the room is the sneak peek by Figma that native Liquid Glass support is coming soon.

Mike Bespalov imitated the effect using an SVG Displacement filter, without any JS or WebGL. Unfortunately, it only works in Chrome and isn’t easily adaptable to other shapes.

Shu recreated the Liquid Glass effect by using an SVG displacement filter and shaders. See the demo or paste the script into any website console. This seems to be the most flexible and customizable recreation, but unfortunately it also only works in Chrome.

Joey Banks recreated Apple’s new iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 button styles using Figma, complete with their new Liquid Glass material. These buttons are fully editable and use native Figma effects.

Nice glass buttons by Oğuz Yağız Kara.

“Inspired by the Apple iPhone 16e launch event visuals, create stunning liquid metal effects for any shape, text, or logo. Instantly transform designs into sleek, shiny metallic visuals—static or animated—for a futuristic, high-end look. Use generated code in your Framer or Webflow project.”

Generate text styles with line heights calculated based on a baseline grid, font size, and type scale.