Unicorn Studio makes creating WebGL effects, motion, and interactivity easy for designers. Later, they can be embedded in Framer, Webflow, or any website.

A fun chatbot made by Max Schoening from Notion. Reading The Grug Brained Developer first is recommended, but ​“What Grug know” is a good primer on simplicity and avoiding pain.

Maggie Appleton argues today’s chatbots drift toward sycophancy — undercutting Enlightenment habits of skeptical, reader-engaging discourse — and suggests giving users explicit ​“critique modes,” routing to tougher personas, and training methods beyond RLHF (reinforcement learning from human feedback) so assistants challenge us, not flatter us.

Loredana Crisan joined Figma as the Chief Design Officer. Before Figma, she had been at Meta for almost 10 years, lately leading AI Products.

Bloomberg: ​“President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday creating a new post for the government’s chief design officer and is tapping Airbnb Inc. co-founder Joe Gebbia to fill the position, according to people familiar with the matter. […] His mission as the nation’s first chief design officer will be to ​“prioritize improving websites and physical sites that have a major impact on Americans’ everyday lives,” according to the text of the executive order released by the White House. That mandate could include income tax filings, Social Security applications, Medicare enrollment, immigration services, and other high-volume government services.”

It’s incredible to see design being recognized at such a high level, and one of the nation’s top design founders instead of a career bureaucrat being tapped to fill this role. The fact that the United States of America created a new post for its first CDO the same day as the design software company at the forefront of the tech industry shows how early it still is for design leadership.

President Donald Trump: ​“America has long led the world in innovation, technological advancement, and design. But with a sprawling ecosystem of digital services offered to Americans, the Government has lagged behind in usability and aesthetics. There is a high financial cost to maintaining legacy systems, to say nothing of the cost in time lost by the American public trying to navigate them. It is time to fill the digital potholes across our Nation.”

Love how clean it looks compared to emojis. You can choose the icon in Apple’s SF Symbols app, but keep in mind that it will render correctly only on Macs.

Professor Miggi walks through using Figma Draw to detail an endoplasmic reticulum to visualize a plant cell diagram.

Ajnas made a wildly realistic illustration inspired by the new F1 movie.

In the first episode of a free Figma AI course by The Cutting Edge School, you’ll learn how to turn static designs into working web apps using Figma Make, without writing a single line of code. It explores the interface, attaching design files, styling components, adding a backend with Supabase, and finally previewing and publishing a live prototype. This is a beginner-friendly lesson that covers Figma Sites, Dev Mode, and how to use Claude-powered AI to generate functional apps faster than ever.

“Restrict access to published Sites and Makes for internal reviews, client sharing, and pre-launch work with new password protection.”

The San Francisco Standard visited the Figma office during the Maker Week to see if the company is up for the challenge of ​“retaining the company’s playful, eccentric culture without succumbing to the pressures of the public market.”