Figma Weave Lets Anyone Publish AI Tools
Figma spotlighted five community-built tools made with Weave, its AI-native tool-building canvas — including one that turns moodboards into photorealistic room renders and another that turns text into hand-drawn architectural sketches. Anyone on a paid Weave plan can now build and publish their own generative tool to the Figma Community, no code required.
Break Your Code On Purpose, Says This Artist
Figma profiled artist and educator Zach Lieberman, co-founder of the School for Poetic Computation and a pioneer of the openFrameworks coding toolkit, on his creative process. His method: "turn the volume knob up to 11 and break a piece of code in order to see what's possible" — treating malfunctions as discoveries rather than mistakes to avoid.
Pulitzer Winner Mona Chalabi Draws Her Own Data
Pulitzer Prize-winning illustrator and data journalist Mona Chalabi spoke at It's Nice That's Nicer Tuesdays event in New York this week about her new book, *Ten Lives*, which blends personal memoir with hand-drawn data visualization. She's built a career turning cold statistics into illustrations that feel personal and human rather than clinical.
Canva's Free AI Certification Launches This Week
Canva kicked off its 2026 World Tour this week with a new AI Essentials Certification, free through Canva Design School. The one-hour, beginner-level course teaches how to prompt, collaborate with, and refine work using AI, ending in a short test and a shareable certificate.
Autodesk's CEO Says AI Is Already Reshaping VFX
Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost said this week that while long-term AI risk gets the headlines, the more immediate disruption for creatives is already happening inside animation and VFX pipelines, where AI is compressing tasks that used to take teams weeks. He argued the industry needs real guardrails now, not eventually.
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