Figma's Vector Tool Now Erases and Recolors Live
Figma shipped two vector editing upgrades: hit Shift+E in vector edit mode to switch to an eraser, and you can now drag across multiple shapes to fill or recolor them all at once. Auto layout also got two new spacing modes, "Around" and "Evenly," alongside the existing "Between" — matching CSS's space-around and space-evenly behavior.
A Book Club Site Just Won Awwwards Site of the Day
Studio FUTURE THREE built Aardvark Book Club, described as "where BookTok meets the bookshelf," and it took Site of the Day on Awwwards — built on editorial-style curation, custom 3D objects, and playful interaction rather than a standard e-commerce template.
"You Cannot Presume Comprehension" — Designing for 3 Billion People
Meta design leads Jasmine Probst and May Hartono walked through Instagram's first brand refresh in a decade — a new wordmark plus three typefaces (Instagram Sans, Pen, and Mono) — built to work across a global audience too large and varied to design for like a normal target user.
Adobe Firefly Now Generates Music, Speech, and Sound Effects Together
Adobe made Firefly's audio tools generally available in one place: a Music Model that scores original, commercially-licensed tracks to match a video's mood and length, a Speech Model (or ElevenLabs) that turns scripts into voiceovers with pacing and emotion control, and an Audio Model for custom sound effects timed to your footage.
Turn Any Flat Photo Into a Relit 3D Surface
Codrops developer Dominik Fojcik published a tutorial showing how modern depth-estimation models can pull a depth map out of an ordinary 2D photo, then use that map in Three.js with WebGPU and TSL to add real-time lighting, surface detail, and self-shadowing — making a flat image respond to light like a 3D object.
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