Figma Lets You Build Your Own AI Agent Skills
On August 13, Figma opened up "Agent Skills" authoring, letting anyone package a workflow — like auditing image exports, prompting for shaders, or building a type scale — into a reusable skill the Figma agent can run on command. Ten starter skills, like `/image-audit` and `/make-a-type-scale`, shipped alongside the announcement so you can see the format before building your own.
Move Fast Without Losing Your Point of View
Figma developer advocate Jake Albaugh published a framework for working with AI without becoming a "prompt-and-accept" designer: scrutinize every output, build strong context (design systems, references) so the AI works from your intent instead of guessing, and consciously resist the pull toward generic, average-looking results.
Award-Winning Art Director's Rule: Motion Before Layout
Denis Avramenko — an Awwwards, Webby, and Lovie Awards juror whose X8 Eyewear project won 12 international awards — told Codrops he builds interactive sites by prototyping motion and typography first, before ever touching a homepage layout, treating each project as a "behavioral system" rather than a static page.
Adobe's Entire Toolkit Now Lives Inside ChatGPT
Adobe rolled out a single unified plugin that puts Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, InDesign, Firefly, and Adobe Stock directly inside ChatGPT, so you can generate and edit assets without leaving the chat window. Creative Bloq's own writeup is skeptical it's a "game changer," but confirms it works as advertised.
Redesign a Logo the Way Brands Are Roasting Instagram's
Instagram quietly shipped a blander new wordmark this week, and brands including KitKat, McDonald's, Wendy's, and Canva immediately posted jokey mockups of what their own logos would look like with the same treatment — a spontaneous, public design roast playing out in real time.
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