Issue #66: Free Adobe XD 👌, and Google to replace Zeplin, Craft, and Invision? 👀

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Friday November 18

Hey 👋,

👀 Can Google replace tools like Craft, Invision, and Zeplin with their own new products?
🤔 How does Pixar create an environment where people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticism?

These are a couple questions answered in section 1.

In section 2 you’ll find that Adobe XD is now free 🚀 ! This week we also published Toolbox #4: a collection 30 new tools to explore.

P.S. do check out Visual Inspector’s latest update for collaborating on live websites just like on Google docs. Enjoy!

7 Top Stories.

By Graeme

1. Fun UI Password Fields 🙈🐵– now you see it now you don’t!

Check out this fun collection of 7 critters 🐻🦉🦊🐭 who spy on your password as you type.

By Jonathan Courtney

2. How LEGO Run Design Sprints at Scale

A case study about how LEGO scaled Design Sprints throughout its organisation

By Eugen Eşanu

3. Pixar’s Braintrust and its Importance for Creative Culture

Eugen explains what ‘Braintrust’ is, and how Pixar use it to be successful.

By Irene Shih

4. Google I/O — Material Theming

Irene wonders if Google’s Material Theming can potentially replace Craft, InVision, Zeplin and more!

By Christine Nishiyama

5. Online Classes Don't Work

Christine explains why the internet utopia of knowledge isn’t totally working. And she’s figured out why.

HODINKEE

6. Apple, Influence, and Ive

The greatest designer of our generation talks watches for the very first time.

By Jon Moore

7. 25 Steps to Becoming a Great Designer

Jon shares a program you can follow on your journey to becoming the next Jony Ive!

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9 Tools and Resources.

Prototypr

1. 💥 30 Brand New Design Tools.

Here’s Toolbox #4 – our 4th tool roundup of the year…and it’s a big one!

Adobe Blog

2. Adobe XD for Free

Adobe introduce a new Starter Plan for XD and it’s available to everyone for free!

Read the update

screely.com

3. Screely

Screely instantly turns your screenshot into a beautiful image to share anywhere.

Spirit

4. Spirit: An animation tool for the web

The animation tool that helps you create and manage animations in real time in the browser.

makefrontendshitagain.party

5. Make Frontend Shit Again

Remember frontend development before all the crazy tools? Remember when it was fun?

By Icons8

6. Fugue: Free Stock Music for UIs

Fugue is a stock service of around 1000 royalty-free, high-quality music.

DesignSystems.com

7. Design Systems by Figma

The best resource for learning, creating, and evangelizing Design Systems.

By Valentin Chrétien

8. Sketch Icons 4: brand new features

Now you can drag & drop a whole set of icons directly into Sketch with Valentin’s awesome Sketch plugin. ✨

productdesigninterview.com

9. Weekly Product Design Exercise

Receive weekly UX exercises inspired and used by companies like Facebook, Google, and WeWork.

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