So many exciting new tools for designers this month! From AI help to UI tools to collaboration tools that make work easier, there are plenty of things to dive into.
Here’s what’s new for designers.
There’s a fine art to creating a great image thumbnail and it is often one of those things designers forget in the workflow. ThumblifyAI takes the hassle and labor out of creating perfect thumbnails with an artificial intelligence-based tool that does the work for you, while encouraging users to click! It is super easy: Type your idea and let ThumblifyAI instantly turn it into a professional, scroll-stopping thumbnail. Simple prompts become thumbnails that drive clicks.
Bento Grid Generator helps you create great grids in the same style as Apple’s bento style. The free, web-based tool lets you design, customize, and export beautiful grid compositions with drag-and-drop interface. It is perfect for portfolios, social links, and showcases.
Open Saas 2.0 just launched and is an open-source, feature-rich, full-stack React, NodeJS, Prisma SaaS boilerplate template that manages features for you. Integration with Stripe or MoRs (like Polar.sh), OpenAI, Plausible/Google Analytics, AWS S3 and more. It comes with LLM-friendly documentation and rules for AI-assisted coding and is deployable anywhere.
Kaedim Flow 3D is a new tool that helps professional 3D teams to ship art faster. Generate production-ready assets, keep every asset on track, and accelerate artists without losing creative control. It’s also packed with collaborative features: Drop in sketches, meshes, and style notes; share direction, set requirements, and add any work you’ve already started; plus everything stays connected in one place for your team.
A good user interface tool is hard to beat. They can help jumpstart projects so that you are designing with consistently. Nuxt UI just release v4.0.1 and it is packed with goodies. Create beautiful, responsive, and accessible web apps quickly with Vue or Nuxt. Plus, Nuxt UI is an open-source UI library with 100+ customizable components built with Tailwind CSS and Reka UI.
ShadCN/UI is the second set of UI tools on our list this month and it is also a good one. This open-source set is packed with elements for almost every type of website or application, including some great e-commerce elements. And everything is ready to copy and paste right into your projects.
GetIllustrations is packed with royalty-free illustrations that you can use in projects. Download stock illustration packs for websites, application, and web design. Everything is royalty free, empty state illustrations that include multiple formats such as SVG, AI, and PNG.
Love beautiful grids? Start with Guide Guide. Use it to create rows and a baseline grid. Place guides on your canvas or mark edges and midpoints. This tool is smart, too, and can work based on your aspect ratio, create grids based on other grids, or save grids in smaller bits. It also tries to look like it belongs in your native app once installed, making the learning curve a lot straighter.
One of the biggest pitfalls of AI image generation is that it is not fully banded. Caspa aims to change this with a tool that helps you create AI photos and videos in seconds. Popular features include the ability add multiple products, realistic human models, maintain keep text and logos in images, text to image AI stock photos and video, start to finish AI editing, background removal and upscaling up to 4000 x 4000 pixels.
Art Design Pro is a backend management system template carefully crafted based on Vue 3, TypeScript, Vite, and Element-Plus, with a focus on user experience and visual design. Note this is a GitHub-based tool.
Does your design work the way you hoped? Snap is a tool for instant usability testing so you can answer that question confidently. It’s works a little differently than you might think though; Snap lets you run instant usability tests with AI personas. Drop in a prototype or website, and your custom AI personas will test them like real users. Get results in minutes with transcripts, recordings, and actionable recommendations.
Ruttl recently launched version 3, which is an even faster website feeback tool than before. It allows you to leave comments directly on live websites and make real-time CSS edits, so that you can share precise feedback with your team. It’s is already used by some large companies, including Adobe and Gartner. It works on websites, apps, images, and PDFs.
Tight Studio is an AI tool to help you create impressive product demos with plenty of robust features sucn as automatic zoom in, powerful caption editing and built-in caption styles, crystal clear AI voiceover, music library, text overlay and animation, import media or generate media.
Creatium is an interactive learning tool that you can use to learn new skills or practice and freshen up on things you do every day. The tool focuses on coaching rather than watching videos to help you get a better grasp on concepts. From the creator: “We’ve built a tool that helps you create lessons designed for how our brains actually learn. In just a few clicks, you can create interactive videos, simulations, roleplays, AI coaches, and personalized pathways that boost engagement and retention.”
This one is just for fun since a lot of us listen to music while we work. Radio Starlight lets you create your own generative radio station. Compose a show segment‑by‑segment, bind each segment to feeds, APIs, or pages, and steer it with your own prompt, personality, and BGM sound set. Publish everything with an open protocol and sit back and listen!
