This week’s new tools, tutorials, and resources 👇
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Ostendo: Capture and share beautiful, customizable YouTube screenshots and thumbnails (FREE).
Adobe Creative Cloud: 20+ apps, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and more (70%+ for students & teachers).
QuiverAI: Generate, edit, and animate editable SVGs from text prompts (FREE).
LottieFiles: Create, manage, and implement lightweight animations across websites, apps, presentations, social, and more (FREE)
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TOP STORY
📁 LottieFiles releases “Universal Importer”
This week, LottieFiles released "Universal File Importer" for Lottie Creator, letting motion designers drop almost any file format directly into the editor and export it as a Lottie animation (in a web browser)!
The importer supports 16 file formats across design, animation, motion, and video (including .AI, .PSD, .AEP, .FLA, .GIF, .MP4, .MOV, and more).
Here's what's notable:
After Effects in the browser: Import .AEP files without needing After Effects installed. A composition picker lets you select which comp to convert from multi-comp projects.
Flash / Animate support: Drop legacy .FLA files directly into Lottie Creator and convert them to modern Lottie animations (no additional conversion step required).
Video & GIF to Lottie: Trim clips up to 10 seconds, set your frame rate, and convert video or GIF files into Lottie animations (entirely in the browser, with nothing uploaded to a server).
SVG optimization: Built-in tools let you flatten text, merge paths, and clean up messy SVGs before they land on the canvas.
Three insert modes: Choose how your file arrives: as an editable SVG, a Lottie animation, or a rasterized PNG/WebP snapshot.
Each file supports up to 20MB. Once imported, assets are fully editable within Lottie Creator's timeline, so they're a starting point — not a final output.
A Lottie is a lightweight, scalable animation format (based on JSON) that plays smoothly on any screen size, making it a popular choice for app UIs, websites, and loading animations.
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WEB DESIGN
🔗 Figma releases “Slots”
This week, Figma released "Slots" in open beta, a new feature that lets designers swap content inside components without ever detaching them.
If you've ever detached a modal just to swap out an icon, or duplicated a card variant just to change its contents, Slots are built for exactly that. The component stays linked; only the content inside changes.
When a designer detaches a component, they break its connection to the design system, meaning any future updates to that component won't carry over to their version.
Slots solve this by letting designers customize what's inside a component while keeping the structure intact.
A slot with no content (left) and one with default content (right).
With Slots, you can now:
Customize components without detaching: Swap icons, images, text blocks, or other elements inside a component instance (without breaking its connection to your design system).
Reduce variant overload: Instead of creating a new variant for every possible content combination, one component handles all of them through swappable slots.
Set default or empty slot content: Pre-fill slots with default elements (like a standard icon) or leave them empty to signal that content is required.
Guide usage with preferred instances: Attach a curated list of recommended components to each slot, so designers choose from approved options rather than hunting through the library.
Scale across layout components: Slots work at every level, from a single button to full page sections with defined regions for headers, sidebars, and footers.
The feature also maps closely to how developers build components in code, where content is dynamically injected into a stable container. This makes handoff cleaner — engineers can see exactly what content belongs where without second-guessing the design.
Slots is rolling out in open beta over the next week, and is available to everyone on a full seat. Try out slots in this playground.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🏹 QuiverAI releases “Arrow 1.0”
This week, QuiverAI launched "Arrow 1.0" into public beta, a new AI model that generates editable SVG graphics from text prompts and images.
Unlike most generative AI tools that output pixel-based images, Arrow generates SVGs, meaning every output is fully editable, infinitely scalable, and ready to drop straight into a design workflow.
An SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) is a graphic made from code rather than pixels. It can be scaled to any size without losing quality, and every shape, path, and layer remains individually editable.
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ArrowAI is especially well-suited for:
Icons and logos: Clean outputs with fewer control points and minimal artifacts, making them easy to refine in tools like Figma or Illustrator.
Illustrations: Generate detailed graphics from a reference image or a short text prompt, with style and color palette controls.
Technical drawings: Diagrams, floor plans, and structured layouts where editability matters more than painterly output.
SVG variations: Upload an existing image as a reference and prompt Arrow to generate multiple icon or graphic variations from it.
Exports support PNG, JPEG, WebP, and MP4 (as an animated drawing video). You can also share creations via a public URL or generate SVGs at scale through the Arrow API.
Quiver AI raised an $8.3M seed round led by a16z, and was founded by researchers behind StarVector (prior academic work on using language models for vector generation).
OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞
Figma now allows GitHub Copilot users to connect to the Figma MCP server to push rendered UI to the Figma canvas as editable frames.
Figma now allows you to attach multiple code files to a single Figma component, see code previews across multiple frameworks, and set MCP instructions per framework so agents implement components correctly.
Reve released “Annotations,” allowing you to add instructions or draw directly on an image to make changes.
Raycast released “Glaze,” a new tool for creating beautiful desktop apps with AI.
Luma released “Luma Agents,” creative agents that can plan, generate, iterate, and refine with full context across every stage of creative work.
Bezi released “Model Selection” and a new credit system that lets you choose between models per prompt, use Auto-Continue for uninterrupted multi-step workflows, and get more monthly credits with detailed usage controls.
Webflow released “Component Canvas,” a new dedicated canvas for managing component variants that provides instant visibility into cascading changes across structure, styles, interactions, and more.
Webflow released updates to “Conditional Visibility,” now allowing conditionals to be used to set variants, text, attributes, images, and videos.
Webflow Cloud updates bring 3-4x faster builds, HTTPS streaming, bulk .env uploads, decoupled publish and deploy, and clearer logs for AI and API-driven apps.
Jitter released prompting for “Image to Video,” allowing you to create AI videos that feel just right with custom prompts.
LTX Studio released “LTX-2.3,” the fastest 4K video generation model in the world, with built-in native dialogue.
LTX Studio released “Dubbing” and “Captions “in LTX Studio.
KREA AI released “Voice Mode,” allowing you to speak as you draw and get changes in real-time.
KREA AI now allows you to generate prompts from images.
Riverside upgraded its “Co-Creator” thumbnail generator.
Filmora released a new “Remove Flicker” effect.
Restream now lets you pick a specific segment of your livestream to automatically generate clips from, instead of using the entire recording.
Streamyard now shows you when AI clips are ready in your dashboard.
Tella now allows you to invite unlimited team members to your Cap organization for free, with no limits.
Tella made “Viewer” seats free.
Tella released Dark Mode.
Bolt now supports image generation.
Bolt released “Connectors (MCP),” allowing you to connect Bolt to apps like Notion, Linear, GitHub, Miro, Sentry, and Jira.
Replit is now available in the Claude Marketplace.
Lovable is now available in the Claude Marketplace.
Webflow is now available in the Cursor plugin marketplace.
HeyGen released a new Slack app that lets you instantly turn threads into recap videos directly in Slack.
Framer rolled out “Expert Verification” on Dribbble, allowing you to connect your Dribbble profile to your Framer Expert dashboard.
Descript added GPT 5.4 to Underlord’s model picker.
LTX Studio added support for Kling Motion Control.
Leonardo.AI added support for Google Nano Banana 2.
Rive released Rive Editor 0.8.4375, with improved tree styling, bug fixes, and more.
Cap now notifies you of anonymous views, as well as emails you when your video is first viewed.
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