In this episode, we dive into the unexpected controversy surrounding .io domains as the UK's handover of Indian Ocean territories to Mauritius raises questions about their future by 2030. We then explore Figma's new UI3 update, discussing its mixed reception among designers, the surprisingly useful AI features (currently free but becoming paid in 2025), and ongoing usability challenges with the new interface. The conversation wraps up with a candid wishlist for design innovation, including ideas for customizable workspaces, quick action menus, and better integration for non-designer roles.

The Death of .IO / Figma's Controversial UI3 / The Future Figma Needs by Design Party

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Track your period in a simple and fun way. A minimalist period tracking app designed with privacy in mind. Available on iOS.

Period or Not - Simple and fun period tracker

Your one-stop-shop for everything product design.

In this episode of Design Party, Antonija and Helena dive into the intricacies of Figma's Dev Mode pricing, explore Zeppelin as a valuable alternative, and share their experiences with design critiques. They also touch on moving libraries in Figma and the launch of Superlist. A blend of technical insights and personal anecdotes, this episode is a must-listen for designers and tech enthusiasts alike.

Links mentioned

Zeplin, an alternative to DevMode: https://zeplin.io/


Superlist, a new task management app: https://www.superlist.com/


Figma's New Pricing Model / How To Move Figma Library To A New File / Zeplin To The Rescue by Design Party

On my mom’s first international trip, Lufthansa’s ground crew made a huge mistake that left her stranded in Finland. After spending €547 for an emergency tic...

LUFTHANSA, GIVE ME BACK MY 547€ 🤬

In this episode of Design Party, Antonija and Helena dive into the intricacies of Figma's Dev Mode pricing, explore Zeppelin as a valuable alternative, and share their experiences with design critiques. They also touch on moving libraries in Figma and the launch of Superlist. A blend of technical insights and personal anecdotes, this episode is a must-listen for designers and tech enthusiasts alike.

Links mentioned

 Zeppelin, an alternative to DevMode: Zeplin


 Superlist, a new task management app: Superlist


Chill designing / Ep. 1

https://youtube.com/live/noAJY5tx-L4?feature=share

Subscribe and 🔔 to Eurovision 👉 https://www.youtube.com/user/eurovision?sub_confirmation=1 ⠀Windows95man won Finland's national selection show UMK and will...

Windows95man - No Rules! | Finland 🇫🇮 | National Final Performance | Eurovision 2024

Super-easy email editor. Robust segmentation. Amazing features. Fair pricing.

Alvik - Send emails easy way!

Official Music Video for Baby Lasagna – Catch Me If You CanStream “Catch Me If You Can” - https://babylasagna.lnk.to/catchmeifyoucan Stream “Biggie Boom Boom...

Baby Lasagna - Catch Me If You Can (Official Music Video)

Official video for "Rim Tim Tagi Dim" taken from the album "Demons & Mosquitos" Stream  'Rim Tim Tagi Dim' - https://dora.lnk.to/RimTimTagiDimrecorded, mixed...

Baby Lasagna- Rim Tim Tagi Dim (Official Video)

Learn how Letterboxd could significantly improve their app onboarding and retention by focusing on their customers' jobs-to-be-done.

Letterboxd: How to nail product market fit with clear Jobs‑To‑Be‑Done

→ Figma for Beginners Course ← https://www.udemy.com/course/figma-for-beginners/?referralCode=A929978F2B2805C4FCB1→ Gear ← Sony A7IVUS: https://amzn.to/3wjOx...

Make Icon Library in Figma in Only 5 min

In this episode I am just chill designing

Chill Designing in Figma / Ep. 6

Seasoned Senior Product Designer based in Finland. Crafting pixels into experiences and making design magic happen!

Antonija Pek - Senior Product Designer

In today's episode of Design Party, we dive into the nuances of Figma's Dev mode and explore the benefits of organizing a Figma file efficiently. 
We discuss the recent changes Figma has made, pushing code inspection behind a paywall, and how this impacts the handoff between designers and developers. 
Additionally, we share our experiences with Lunacy, praising its potential as a robust design tool. 
For those interested, we've linked to resources and tools mentioned in the episode: Lunacy, and our favorite weather app, Carrot. 
Don't forget to check out our newsletter, Design Party Digest, for curated insights and tips in the design world.

Figma Dev Mode Pricing / How To Organise Figma / New Website! / Lunacy  by Design Party

Join the Period or Not beta

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→ Alvik ←https://alvik.io→ Watch me design Alvik ←https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH1XgrxofHr5qc1qC-Zc_B6B2V9bUM2P9&si=GkcLrtaFGPwZPs4L→ Listen to the Des...

Figma Starts Charging Dev mode? Here is FREE Alternative!

Seven (7) BEST Shortcuts In Figma

The gift-giving season is slowly starting. Check out Maven of Design and submit your top picks! Let's make this list longer! ❤️

I wish a team of people would just come to my apartment. Clean everything. Sort everything. Toss anything I don't need. Sell furniture. So I can move around quickly and effortlessly. At this point I don't see how I could do that all by myself.

I have been a long-time user of CleanMyMac and 7 days ago I bumped into the first hiccup with billing. The team totally failed to provide customer support. Literally no beep for a very simple issue. They charged me yet the app shows no active subscription. MacPaw 👎

I was coding for a few hours today and I managed to push new website for Design Party podcast. It's nice on desktop. I need to add SEO and some tweaks next time. Cheers.

https://www.designpartypodcast.com/

Reading my feed here I see an overwhelming amount of people just being tired of job hunt, their livelihood and uncertainty. We are all in the same boat and I send ❤️ to all of you.

I wish Posts would refresh shared link thumb like Linkedin does

Ta-da! 🎉 

I think v1 is bug-free (do reach out if you find any). And share your favorite gadgets by clicking submit on website or directly here https://tally.so/r/nGB10L

THANKS ALL FOR CONTRIBUTING ❤️

I refuse to accept that Maggie Smith died 😭

More testers needed for my period tracking app! Please report any bug or feedback to hi@apek.me ❤️

Who approved this?! This is super hard to use. Wow. Just wow.

Added a few more nice-to-have things to a new web. I hope to get more listeners this year, be more consistent with recording and publishing, find a way to edit faster, have interesting guests (contact me if you want to be a guest) and grow newsletter as well (more on that later).

If there is a Nuxt developer on my feed or somebody who knows somebody. Please contact me at hi@apek.me - I have a gig for you! And it's super cool.

This is how our Notion looks after a few days of chatting about our soon-to-be product. I will keep sharing how our bootstrapping adventure goes.

So far the hype is there. Developers are really excited. We even got the Github repo ready.

Remember my Alvik project? I hit a bump with the team. A developer decided to do something else in life, and now I am stranded with gorgeous design and in a desperate need for a developer.

Any fullstack dev up for a little business? It would be a shame if this dies.

Check it out. Helena and I discussed interesting stuff. There was also digging into our design traumas. 🥲

I wish Figma had a customizable interface where users can save and load their workspace, arranging the order and visibility of buttons in the right sidebar, similar to Affinity products.

🥁 I teamed up with two buddies (devs) and we decided to bootstrap the company by building a newsletter app.

In short: we don't want outside influence (khm, VCs), rather we want to be small, delight users and finally quit day jobs.

Waitlist is open 🟢

https://alvik.io

Easy weekend listen. Helena x Antonija. I really like this one.

This is why I stopped releasing design videos. They never perform. This was a good test if the waters changed. They totally didn't, at least not for me. To hell with design Youtube 💪

Watch me design my bootstrapped app. Don't be an asshole.

https://youtube.com/live/noAJY5tx-L4?feature=share

For non-european friends here. This banger is representing Finland at upcoming Eurovision.

Today, I used UI3 in Figma for the first time. It was quite disappointing. Although the details look sleek, the usability is seriously lacking. Despite Figma's focus on visual details, they still haven't implemented basic features like previewing the hovered color on an element.

It's been a while since I whipped my camera out. Finally a photoshoot! Edited on-fly with Photomator on iPhone.

Sharing once again because I updated sharing image 😅

Please put your email in if you wanna be a beta tester and give me feedback (so this thing could thrive!)

🟢 Waitlist is open

I have been trying to hire React Native developer via Fiverr... Oh wow, I didn't know what I've put myself into... It's really rough there 🤯 And I didn't find anybody.

Do I have any 3D artists here? I might have a gig for you. Please reach out to hi@apek.me and let's chat.

I am so excited some people decided to join the waitlist. I will see how development goes but I really want to send the first emails to people via Alvik 😁

Next: I need to work on the email editor. It's not where I want it to be. Likely will stream soon. Not today tho.

I will faint. Look at that! Thanks Posts.

If the creators of this app are smart they would use these free designs. Hehe

I neglected my YouTube channel for the past 6 months due to personal reasons and I checked comments this morning and wow I missed so many. This one is now over 60k watches yey. Maybe time to upgrade the plugin to automatically pull in popular libraries

This is absolutely half-baked but I am building next version of my portfolio. I hope to be done over Xmas break. Feedback recommended: https://staging.apek.me/

YouTube is hard. I didn’t manage to move the needle for years 🥲

I created a period tracker called Period or Not available to try on TestFlight. I don’t consider this app fully finished but I would greatly appreciate women test it and give me feedback so I can prepare v1.

https://testflight.apple.com/join/F78BnSFZ

My take on Figma Dev Mode pricing. For many of us, new pricing and putting inspection behind a paywall is a downer. But… There is a free or cheaper alternative!

Where is + for a variant??? OMG, this is horrible.

I revamped the code for Figma Grid Maker plugin (what a stupid name 🙄) and now I am looking into ways to make it better. Some libraries have downloadable folder of svgs. Can you please link me all free icons you can think off? I want to make them directly available in plugin.

I am waiting for my iOS app to be reviewed and then if it passes I will be excited to share TestFlight invite link. Can’t wait to share my work and get good feedback

What are your favorite Figma shortcuts? New video is upppp￼