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Monthly roundups of newly launched design tools.

Most Figma plugin lists are forty plugins nobody uses. This is the shorter list of things that survive a month on your machine.

· 7 min read

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

Adobe stopped investing in XD. If you are still on it, this is a migration guide rather than a comparison.

· 7 min read

Product Hunt is one day on one site. These twenty spread your launch across places with better intent.

· 8 min read

Your product is judged on five images and a 40-second video before anyone reads a word.

· 7 min read

The first hundred users do not come from scale. They come from you, doing things that do not scale.

· 7 min read

A week of directory submissions keeps sending traffic for years. Here is the list, and the ones to skip.

· 8 min read

Your portfolio has to outlive the platform it is built on. That single constraint eliminates half the options.

· 7 min read

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

Figma Dev Mode absorbed most of what Zeplin did. Here is what is left worth paying for, and when.

· 7 min read

Notion is a database that looks like a document. For visual thinking, several of these fit designers better.

· 7 min read

The question is not which kit looks best. It is who owns the components after you install them.

· 7 min read