Good morning. FLORA just introduced FAUNA, a creative AI agent that builds entire visual workflows on a canvas from a single prompt, then lets you redirect, refine, and push the results further.
PLUS: Webflow ships MCP v1.2, Figma brings back April Fun Week, LottieFiles launches free motion templates, and more.
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🎨 FLORA introduces "FAUNA," a creative AI agent
FLORA just launched FAUNA, a creative agent built directly into its canvas that handles everything from model selection to prompt sequencing, so you can describe what you want and let it build the entire workflow around your vision.
FLORA is an AI-powered creative canvas designed for designers, art directors, and creative teams. Think of it as a workspace where multiple AI models work together visually, and everything happens on one open canvas rather than inside a chat window.
FAUNA can also search the web for reference images, pull from Unsplash, and find visuals similar to anything already on your canvas. The research and the making happen in the same place.
A few examples of what creative teams are already doing with it:
Turn a single product photo into five campaign-ready images by describing the world the product should live in
Take one sketch and generate it across multiple colorways, models, and environments
Feed FAUNA one approved hero image and get a full set of platform-ready assets back
The key difference from other AI creative tools: FAUNA doesn't try to one-shot the creative process. It's built for iteration. If one part of a workflow isn't working, you can re-run just that piece while the rest of the canvas stays intact.
And when the session ends, every step (the models, prompts, and sequence) stays on the canvas, so the thinking behind the work is as permanent as the work itself.
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MOTION DESIGN
✨ LottieFiles launches 50+ free "Motion Templates"
LottieFiles just released a library of 50+ free motion templates covering onboarding flows, feedback interactions, transitions, empty states, and more.
These new templates are designed to solve a common problem for product and design teams: your design system has colors, typography, spacing, and components, but it probably doesn't have motion. These templates fill that gap.
Each template is free to open, customize, and ship.
Categories include:
Onboarding sequences
Feedback animations (like success/error states)
Page transitions
Empty-state illustrations
And more…
They're built to drop directly into your existing workflow, whether you're working in Figma, Webflow, or building natively.
LottieFiles is the go-to platform for lightweight, scalable animations (called Lottie files) that work across websites, apps, and social content. If you've ever seen a smooth loading spinner, an animated icon, or a playful micro-interaction on a website, there's a good chance it was built with Lottie.
WEB DESIGN
🌐 Webflow ships "MCP v1.2" with raw HTML, component slots, and 500+ CSS properties
Webflow just released MCP v1.2, a major upgrade to its MCP server that makes AI coding tools dramatically more capable when building Webflow sites.
What's an MCP server? MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI assistants like Claude or Cursor connect to and control other apps. Think of it like giving your AI a direct line into Webflow, so instead of just chatting about your site, it can actually build and edit elements inside it.
Here's what's new in v1.2:
Raw HTML to Webflow elements. AI agents can now pass raw HTML and CSS directly to Webflow and have it automatically converted into native Webflow elements. No more building things one node at a time.
Component slots with no depth limit. Agents can now build with slots, fill them, define them, and assemble full pages in a single call.
Element querying. Agents can search and filter elements by type, class, tag, attribute, or text content, with results returned as a clean tree (not a flat list). Less clutter, smarter builds.
500+ CSS properties. The style tool now covers 500+ CSS properties. Properties that were previously unsupported no longer fail silently.
Variable creation and management. Agents can now create, read, search, rename, and delete custom variables, including support for color-mix() and calc() expressions.
If you're already using the MCP server, your agents automatically use this new version.
WEB DESIGN
🕹️ Figma brings back "April Fun Week" with the FigCade
Figma just opened the FigCade, a collection of six playable games hidden inside Figma Design, FigJam, Buzz, and Slides as part of its annual April Fun Week.
Every year, Figma turns April 1st into a week-long celebration with easter eggs and surprise features baked into its products. Last year it was throwback cursors inspired by internet history (8-bit, Y2K, Skeuomorphic, and Aero). This year, it's a full-on arcade.
Here's how it works: six games are available to play once a day for seven days, spread across Figma's product lineup. Figma is even offering to follow anyone on X who beats their score, turning the whole thing into a community challenge.
It's a small detail, but it's the kind of thing that makes Figma feel less like enterprise software and more like a product built by people who actually enjoy using it. If you open any Figma app this week, keep an eye out for the FigCade. And if you've got a competitive streak, try to top the leaderboard.
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📰 Other news you might've missed:
Google launched Veo 3.1 Lite, its most cost-effective video generation model, now available in Flow and via the Gemini API. It supports text-to-video, image-to-video, and landscape/portrait formats at less than 50% the cost of Veo 3.1 Fast. Pricing for Veo 3.1 Fast will also drop on April 7.
Figma added Microsoft 365 Copilot integration to FigJam, letting you turn documents, messages, and other Microsoft 365 content into flowcharts, Gantt charts, and sequence diagrams.
Replit partnered with RevenueCat to let creators add in-app purchases to mobile apps built on Replit, then publish directly to the App Store.
Luma AI launched team accounts with dedicated roles, individual workspaces, and a credit usage dashboard for managing creative teams under one roof.
InVideo added Seedance 2.0 (from BytePlus) for Max, Generative, and Team plan users, bringing multimodal input, motion replication from reference videos, and native audio-video generation.
OpenArt also added Seedance 2.0 for Teams and Enterprise users, with support for up to nine reference images, director-level camera control, and cinematic multi-shot storytelling (currently 60% off).
