Design, p. 2
Design
19 stories · page 2 of 3Wan 3.0 makes 30 seconds of video in a single pass, with no stitching
Alibaba's new video model is live in ComfyUI. It gives up to 30 seconds at once, up to twenty reference assets, and a way to address each of them by name inside the prompt itself.
Read →FLUX Upscale regenerates video up to 4K and fixes the blurred faces
Black Forest Labs shipped an upscaler for video: you feed it a recording from 480p up, it hands it back enlarged 1.5, 2 or 3 times, up to native 4K. Two modes, a price per megapixel-second, only through the API and the playground. No benchmarks.
Read →A London studio builds identities with code and calls it material
Studio Dial builds visual systems with generative code: the motion of mixing a cocktail becomes the pattern in the menu, and every drink gets its own image. Their code is material in a designer's hand, not a machine drawing instead of them.
Read →A typeface that tells the human one thing and the machine another
Decoy Font hides two messages in the same letters: a human reads one, a language model reads the other. It's built on an optical illusion decades old. The author himself says the trick may not last long.
Read →Runway shipped one API for all of its media models
Adobe, ElevenLabs and Figma now go through the same single door. Runway announced Runway Dev - a platform with one API to all of its models for image, video, audio and live real-time characters.
Read →AI video in a single pass: 30 seconds with no stitching
30 seconds of video, all at once, with no stitching clips together. This is what Seedance 2.5 does, made by ByteDance. It accepts up to 50 references (image, video, audio) so you can control the result. The official pages don't mention 4K: the plans list 480p, 720p and 1080p.
Read →Figma is teaching its agent exactly how your team works
Figma released Skills - plain-language instructions the agent runs with a slash command. It simulates feedback, preps reviews, logs tasks in Asana. Open beta.
Read →Figma Config: design and code merge
Figma showed Code Layers - turn a layer into interactive code with one click, in both directions. Plus Motion, AI shaders and a stronger agent. The line between design and code softens.
Read →The AI assistant driving all of Creative Cloud
Adobe Firefly Creative Agent: you say what you want in words, and it executes the multi-step processes across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, and the rest. Behind it stand more than 30 models.
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