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TOP STORY
🥳 Figma releases “Sites”

This week, Figma released Figma Sites, Figma Make, Figma Draw, and Figma Buzz at its annual Config 2025 event.

These announcements aim to make Figma an all-in-one creation hub, empowering designers, developers, and marketers to go from idea to production on one platform (similar to Adobe Creative Cloud and Canva).

Here’s what was launched 👇️ 

1) Figma Sites: Turn designs into websites 💻️ 

With Figma Sites, you can now:

• Build responsive websites using 50+ templates, breakpoints, and interactions like parallax scrolling or marquee effects.

• Copy designs from Figma Design, pull in design system assets, or use Smart Blocks for pre-built, adaptive layouts.

• Publish to the web with live HTML previews and custom domains, free through 2025 for Organization/Enterprise plans.

This new feature will be rolling out over the coming weeks. Figma also teased a CMS (content management system) for Sites, expected later this year, that would allow users to create and publish blog posts.

2) Figma Make: Turn text prompts into prototypes ⚙️ 

Figma Make, powered by Claude 3.5, will enable teams to generate high-fidelity prototypes or code from text prompts or existing designs.

With Figma Make, you can now:

• Describe features like “add a publish button to this webpage” to create functional prototypes or code snippets instantly.

• Modify designs by highlighting elements and using text instructions for real-time updates.

• Collaborate seamlessly, with prototypes syncing across team workflows in Figma’s canvas.

Figma Make, rolling out soon, is a game-changer for cross-functional teams, with 30% of Figma’s Q4 2024 users being developers.

The feature is only available to teams or organizations that have AI features enabled.

3) Figma Draw: Create illustrations ✏️ 

Figma Draw introduces advanced vector editing, brushes, and creative tools to Figma users.

With Figma Draw, you can now:

• Create illustrations with new fills, effects, brushes, and text-on-path for dynamic designs.

• Use advanced tools like Lasso and Shape Builder for precise, expressive vector editing.

• Integrate illustrations directly into Figma projects, streamlining design workflows.

The feature is available to Full seat users on paid plans and is rolling out in the coming weeks.

4) Figma Buzz: Create brand assets in bulk ✨

Figma Buzz uses AI to produce on-brand assets at scale, directly competing with Canva for marketing and creative teams.

With Figma Buzz, you can now:

• Generate marketing assets like social posts or banners using AI-driven customization.

• Pull in design systems or use spreadsheet-driven inputs for consistent, high-volume outputs.

• Create and share assets directly in Figma, speeding up campaign workflows.

The feature is available on all seats during beta and is rolling out soon.

You can watch the full keynote presentation here 👇️ 

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VIDEO EDITING
🤯 Luma AI releases “Reframe”

Luma AI released a new “Reframe” feature, allowing users to outpaint and resize any video or image, eliminating the need for awkward cropping.

This feature is now available to Unlimited and Enterprise plan subscribers.

With Reframe, you can now:

• Outpaint and resize content: Transform videos or images up to 10 seconds into any aspect ratio, such as vertical, horizontal, or square, with AI filling in missing areas seamlessly.

• Use external or Dream Machine assets: Upload any video or image, or reframe Dream Machine creations.

• Customize with drag-and-drop: Freely reposition content on the canvas to focus on key elements, maintaining quality without distortion.

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DESIGN
🆕 Canva launches 45+ new features

Canva has rolled out over 45 community-inspired features, directly driven by user feedback.

The update spans from design, education, typography, and video/audio, making everyday tasks faster, smoother, and more impactful, complementing major launches like Canva Sheets and Canva Code.

With these community wishlist features, you can now 👇️ 

• Multipage websites: Add pages to Canva websites, combining whiteboards, docs, and social posts.

• Text highlighting in Docs: Emphasize key messages or streamline reviews with simple text highlighting in Canva Docs.

• Superscript & subscript: Format equations, citations, or notations effortlessly with superscript and subscript options.

• Banners on all pages: Set design elements as banners on every Canva Doc page via right-click.

• Magic Write for presenter notes: Generate AI-powered, slide-specific presenter notes with Magic Write.

• Assignments (Canva Education): Assign tasks and track student progress in one place.

• Google App Licensing: Deploy Canva via Google Workspace with automated verification.

• Generate quiz: Transform presentation elements into interactive quizzes with AI in seconds.

• Scrollables: Turn Canva Docs into scrollable designs.

• Whiteboards enhanced diagramming: Map timelines, workflows, or customer journeys with precise diagramming tools.

• Kerning & ligatures: Adjust typography with professional kerning and ligatures.

• New stock photo collections: Access Afloimages’ Japanese culture imagery and Alamy’s 200,000+ photos.

• AI Voice: Generate natural-sounding audio from text prompts with diverse AI voices.

• Record a voiceover: Add your voice to video or social media designs.

• Volume balancing: Achieve studio-quality sound with one-click balancing.

• Video adjustments: Tweak brightness and contrast for consistent, professional video looks.

• Captions animations: Create accessible, engaging videos with animated captions and glow effects that highlight spoken text.

• Photo & Video Animations: Add one-click effects like fades, ripples, or reveals to photos and videos.

• + more!

Many of these features are available now, with others rolling out soon.

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OTHER STORIES
Everything else in creative news 🗞️ 

Figma released a new “Grid” auto-layout option, allowing users to format designs in a gallery, card, or bento layout.

Descript’s AI co-editor can now: select & add an avatar to your videos, adjust layer properties, export videos, add text layers to a scene, blur backgrounds, apply Descript’s eye contact feature, apply green screens & remove backgrounds, apply Studio sound, and more.

ElevenLabs released an open-source Nest.js Audio Starter Kit.

Figma released a new “Text on a Path” feature.

Webflow released “Webflow Cloud,” a new product that leverages Webflow’s robust, native hosting infrastructure to empower developers to deploy full-stack applications and dynamic web experiences alongside their Webflow sites.

beehiiv now enables users to generate AI-powered cover art for their podcasts, added dozens of new high-quality voices, and the ability to review & edit your audio transcript before publishing.

Figma now allows users to change the rotation origin with a new Option/Alt + R keyboard shortcut.

Figma released a new progressive “Layer blur” setting.

Freepik released “Workflow” in the Freepik AI assistant, a streamlined, distraction-free creation experience.

Freepik released a new “Composition” feature in the Freepik AI assistant, allowing you to draw your layout, drop elements and notes, and let AI do the rest.

Freepik released a new “Style Selector” in AI Assistant, allowing users to choose from curated visual styles.

Freepik released “Color Palette Selector” in AI Assistant, allowing users to pick the mood and tone of their generated images.

Freepik released a new update to images generated via GPT-4o, making image colors feel more natural, natural, and true to your prompts.

Suno now allows users to turn their songs into shareable 10s, 20s, or 30s clips with lyrics & cover art.

Recraft released “Advanced Style Controls,” allowing users to explore ready-to-use styles in the new Infinite library and mix them with their own images.

Higgsfield AI released “Higgsfield Effects,” a new cinematic pack of high-impact VFX.

Higgsfield AI released “Effects Mix,” 23 built-in VFX presets.

KREA AI released “Video Enhance,” enabling users to upscale and enhance videos up to 8K resolution and 120fps.

Runway Gen-4 Text-to-Image and References are now available to Free Plan users.

Runway released an update to “Gen-4 References,” bringing improvements to aesthetic quality, scene composition, and identity preservation.

Restream now allows you to control the ticker speed in Restream Studio.

KREA AI now supports the use of start and end frames when using Wan 2.1.

HeyGen released “Avatar IV,” enabling users to generate a talking video from one photo in seconds.

Leonardo.Ai released 720 videos in “Motion 2.0,” enabling sharper generations.

Freepik announced that Flux 1.0 generations now cost 75% less.

Play’s Simulator now allows you to view and interact with your prototypes on your desktop.