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Shared context with Figma Specs | Figma
Figma Specs allows designers to share context with developers, streamlining the design-to-development handoff process and ensuring accurate implementation.
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Stories from Saturday, 17 October 2026
Figma (YT)
VideoMore control over your design systems | Figma
Figma is introducing new features that provide designers with enhanced control and flexibility when managing and scaling their design systems within the platform.
17 Oct
Figma (YT)
VideoCode Layers: Collaborate with code on the canvas | Figma
Figma introduces Code Layers, enabling developers to collaborate directly on the design canvas with production code, fostering a more integrated design and development workflow.
17 Oct
Design Tools
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ToolsPure UI in the Agentic Era
User interfaces are evolving from event-driven DOM manipulations to static data snapshots, reflecting a shift in how designers conceptualize and build interactive experiences.
16 Oct
Design Tools
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ToolsThe “disability dongle”: Why Silicon Valley hates me and you
Silicon Valley's "disability dongles," flashy but impractical tech solutions, fail to address the actual needs of disabled people, who often require basic infrastructure improvements and accessible digital environments.
16 Oct5 min read
AI & Tools
Hugging Face
AIScaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
NVIDIA and IIT Madras released a 2.8 trillion token dataset across 22 Indian languages, along with an open, GPU-accelerated data generation pipeline for creating more high-quality Indic training data.
16 Oct13 min read
Design Tools
Sidebar.io
ToolsThe case against JPEG XL
Despite its technical merits and initial industry attention, JPEG XL is not competitive for web use cases due to its limited lossy compression efficiency and marginal lossless advantages.
15 Oct10 min read
Design Tools
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Design owns coherence
Design should own the coherence of a business's offerings, ensuring a unified and clear experience for users across various products and channels, rather than just focusing on usability or consistency.
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