Best Tools
The Figma Plugins and Resources Worth Installing in 2026
Most Figma plugin lists are forty plugins nobody uses. This is the shorter list of things that survive a month on your machine.
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Alternatives
10 Midjourney Alternatives Built for Designers
Midjourney makes beautiful images you cannot edit, in a style you cannot repeat. For design work, that is the wrong shape of tool.
· 7 min read
Alternatives
Adobe XD Is Done: 10 Alternatives to Move To
Adobe stopped investing in XD. If you are still on it, this is a migration guide rather than a comparison.
· 7 min read
Launch & Growth
20 Product Hunt Alternatives That Actually Send Traffic
Product Hunt is one day on one site. These twenty spread your launch across places with better intent.
· 8 min read
Launch & Growth
Launch Assets: The Screenshots, Video and Images That Convert
Your product is judged on five images and a 40-second video before anyone reads a word.
· 7 min read
Launch & Growth
Getting Your First 100 Users for a Design Tool
The first hundred users do not come from scale. They come from you, doing things that do not scale.
· 7 min read
Launch & Growth
60 Design and SaaS Directories Worth Submitting To
A week of directory submissions keeps sending traffic for years. Here is the list, and the ones to skip.
· 8 min read
Best Tools
The 12 Best Portfolio Builders for Designers in 2026
Your portfolio has to outlive the platform it is built on. That single constraint eliminates half the options.
· 7 min read
Comparisons
Lovable vs v0 vs Bolt: Design-to-Code AI Compared
All three turn prompts into working code. They differ on how much of the stack they cover and how much of the result you actually own.
· 6 min read
Alternatives
9 Zeplin Alternatives for Design Handoff
Figma Dev Mode absorbed most of what Zeplin did. Here is what is left worth paying for, and when.
· 7 min read
Alternatives
10 Notion Alternatives for Design Teams
Notion is a database that looks like a document. For visual thinking, several of these fit designers better.
· 7 min read
Best Tools
The 12 Best UI Kits and Component Libraries in 2026
The question is not which kit looks best. It is who owns the components after you install them.
· 7 min read