I remember the first time I used a 3D icon pack on a client project. It was a fintech dashboard redesign for a 99designs client, and I was struggling to stand out from 20+ competing designs. Flat icons were everywhere. Then I discovered 3dicons.co, dropped a handful of minimal 3D icons into the interface, and suddenly the design felt alive—modern, tactile, and genuinely different.

Figma has acquired Weavy, a platform that brings generative AI and professional editing tools into the open canvas. As Figma Weave, the company will help build out image, video, animation, motion design, and VFX media generation and editing capability on the Figma platform.

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User experience (UX) determines the success of digital products today. Whether it’s an e-commerce platform, a SaaS solution, or a mobile app, the way people interact with a product affects engagement, retention, and overall growth. As businesses compete for attention in a crowded digital space, integrating intelligent systems is becoming essential. AI development services are helping companies design products that feel intuitive, responsive, and aligned with user behavior.

Anthropic Claude is a primary competitor of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Just like ChatGPT this is versatile tool that can be use used in many different purposes but there is an area where Claude shines and this area is coding. Claude is great at code-adjacent design tasks and can be used as a nice supporting tool for everyday product design activities.

Motion can be tricky: too much distracts, too little feels flat. Ambient animations sit in the middle. They’re subtle, slow-moving details that add atmosphere without stealing the show. In part two of his series, web design pioneer Andy Clarke shows how ambient animations can add personality to any website design.

With marketing templates that are now connected to your design system, plugins that pull in your favorite apps, and video trimming in Figma Buzz, we’re giving designers and marketers new tools to create branded assets that speak volumes.

Picture this: You’re tweaking a headline for the third time, manually swapping between font files to find the perfect weight. Regular feels too thin, but bold is overkill. You need something in between—like weight 575. Impossible with traditional fonts, right?

The client came to us with an ambitious idea — to create a mental health support app that would help users cope with various psychological challenges and traumas. The core features included emotion tracking, meditation practices, and support through a built-in AI chat. The goal was not just to design a beautiful interface, but to build a thoughtful, user-friendly, and effective product that would stand out among competitors.

Commissioned by Network Rail to coincide with the railway’s 200th anniversary in 2025, the project aimed to create a standardised clock that could unify the passenger experience across the country while celebrating the rich heritage of British rail design. The result is a 1.8-metre physical and digital timepiece that fuses timeless symbolism with modern functionality, and reimagines one of the nation’s most recognisable icons in the process.