Craftwork Design Digest #7: Figma’s mini design series on craft, Play to Xcode integration, Swiss Passport design and much more

Craftwork

24 March 2025

AI news

6 mins to read

Welcome to the seventh edition of Craftwork Design Digest!

Each week, we'll bring you a curated collection of the best design news, inspiration, articles, events, design resources, expert tips and more – all in one convenient place, just for you. Whether you're a designer, creator, or just someone who loves good design, we've got you covered with fresh content to fuel your creativity.

What we found this week

Play to Xcode

Designing goofiest UI ideas

Fresh Design Resources

Curated Design Websites

The story behind Swiss passport design

Figma’s mini series on craft, users and more

Essential Space by Nothing

New Features in Figma Slides

Blender 4.4 Update

AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review

Canvas in Gemini

i suck at Logo Design... so i made 1000 in a day

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Announcement

Play to Xcode

AI news

Play has finally announced their Xcode integration, which allows you to bring your mobile prototypes directly into code and App Store without any coding experience.

We at Craftwork are so excited to finally try this workflow!

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Tutorial

Designing goofiest UI ideas

AI news

Juxtopposed recently posted a video showcasing design explorations of some pretty wild ideas, such as a watch UI for time travel, or a music app that functions like a vinyl player—where the user has to take albums from a shelf and place the vinyl on the turntable—along with ten other concepts.

We think this is a refreshing exploration in an era of minimal and utilitarian designs.

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Inspiration

Curated Design Websites

AI news

1. Kuba | Design partner.

2. SortUI | Premium Figma & Framer UI Kits.

3. Atlas Card | Your key to the world.

4. Thumb | Free Mockup Generator for Designers

5. Timothy Ogundipe | Seasoned Product Designer

Curated

Web design inspiration gallery

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Branding

The story behind Swiss passport design

AI news

Geneva-based creative agency RETINAA was responsible for bringing the new, beautifully designed Swiss passport to life. Carl Guilhon, the agency’s founder, explained that passport designs often feel outdated, and they aimed to redefine what a Swiss document should look like in the 21st century.

The team drew heavy inspiration from the Swiss landscape: “We designed an imaginary journey along the watercourses—from the Alps, through the cantons, and out into the world.” The project is full of design details, and we definitely recommend taking a closer look at the article!

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Tutorial

Figma’s mini series on craft, users and more

AI news

Figma's designer advocates, product designers, engineers, and PMs hung out in London to record a mini series about craft, users, and the design process called “Blend Mode”. They’ve already published several valuable design videos on several topics:

  1. Blend Mode: Users | Figma
  2. Blend Mode: The Design Process | Figma
  3. Blend Mode: Craft | Figma

Announcement

Essential Space by Nothing

AI news

Nothing has introduced their brand new feature that allows you to capture information on the go and store it in you so-called "second brain" where you can later access and take action with that information.

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Announcement

New Features in Figma Slides

AI news

Figma finally unveiled long awaited features, the update includes:

  1. Import/Export pptx files
  2. Object Animations
  3. Slide numbers
  4. Components
  5. Video improvements
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Announcement

Blender 4.4 Update

AI news

Blender has released version 4.4, featuring improvements to the animation workflow, a new sculpt brush, enhanced video editing, and more. The video showcase of designs created in Blender is awesome, by the way!

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Tutorial

AI Interfaces Of The Future | Design Review

AI news

Y Combinator partner Aaron Epstein and Raphael Schaad, founder of Notion Calendar, sat down to review AI user interfaces.

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AI Tool

Canvas in Gemini

AI news

Canvas is a new feature built into Gemini that makes it easier than ever to create, refine ideas, and get work done.

For example, if you want to learn to code, you can simply highlight a snippet and ask Gemini to explain it. Gemini Canvas also simplifies sharing your ideas and work with others.

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AI Tool

i suck at Logo Design... so i made 1000 in a day

AI news

Elliot is known for creating crazy and funny videos. Initially, he wanted to improve his skills in logo design, and knowing Elliot for his unconventional ideas, he challenged himself this time to design 1,000 logos in 1,000 minutes.

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Let us know what you think at [email protected], see you next week!

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