Sketch hits ⌘X on Generative AI

Sketch hits ⌘X on Generative AI

If we imagine that AI is the hottest new club in town, then Figma was the first to the dance floor.

Meanwhile, Sketch is outside checking IDs and making sure everything is in order.

One week after Figma re-introduced their AI-powered design features, Sketch chimed in with their thoughts and plans going forward.

In their words: TL:DR - We're not touching generative AI if it means it takes from you or other designers.

What’s the right approach to this? Hit reply and let us know your thoughts.

“Reverse Engineering”

Some might simply call it stealing… and… they… did.

Many prominent designers were quick to call out the fact that Reverse UI was simply ripping designer’s work in the name of “reverse engineering” and repackaging them for sale in a $50 library.

It’s one thing to break a design down in the name of curiosity and education.

But slapping a price tag on them without crediting the original designer… eh.

“Fixed panels are so back” - Figma

While Sketch is cautiously planning their next steps, Figma pushes on.

After a multi-year journey, the team announced UI3, overhauling core interface elements. Yes, this means that you can (mostly) say goodbye to floating panels.

There’s a lot to unpack here before the Oct 10 general release but it’s nice to see Figma reversing previous design decisions based on actual user feedback.

What else happened this week in design?

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation to build even bigger AI models. That’s… a lot of money.

TechCrunch gets an unexpected redesign. Meanwhile, we’re trying to remember when TechCrunch was last relevant?

The designers behind the new iPhone 16 share their thoughts that led to the Camera Control button.

An iPhone wallpaper paid Shane’s rent for an entire year. Take that, MKBHD!

Resources

🤓 (Read) Design Engineering 101 - a practical guide to the jobs and skills of the design engineer in tech

🎙 (Interview) Designer Simon Riisnæs Dagfinrud sits down with Read.cv

🔁 (Plugin) Yann-Edern Gillet releases a tool that lets you sync color and text styles from Figma to Framer

👤 tiny.SUPPLY creates custom pfps to be used as your avatar on the social apps

🌫 (Plugin) Displace allows you to easily create stunning glass, noise, and glitch effects with real-time adjustments.

Design Dopamine

Windows XP in 2024? I don’t hate it.

Perplexity gets its MacOS icon. And damn is it pretty.

Building a website with a PS5 controller???

And just when I thought I was really getting the hang of Figma… I stumble across this 🤯 We all bow down to Inga!

Design Roulette

We doomscroll the internet so that you don’t have to. Here are the websites that we loved this week.

👇 This website is wild. Click at your own risk. And maybe turn your volume down a bit. 👇