Ando for AI art. Figma at Microsoft. Optimize color styles.
Figma app for Microsoft Teams
“The Figma app allows your team to riff on ideas together in real-time, present designs to get stakeholder feedback, and share the latest updates with everyone — without ever leaving Microsoft Teams.” See also the conversation with Jon Friedman, Corporate VP of Design & Research at Microsoft, about collaboration, the importance of design systems and toolchains in freeing up time for ambitious work, and why it’s worth it to change a company’s culture — even if it’s hard.
Searching for files
Nice improvement to the search — now you can find files based on page and frame names, in addition to the underlying text.
Ando plugin for AI art
This demo of the upcoming Ando plugin blew up over the last few days. Antonio Cao is working on a plugin using Stable Diffusion to generate AI art based on visual and text prompts. The new wave of AI design tools may be the biggest change in our industry after the introduction of multiplayer by Figma in 2016.