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Icons and Teams

# April 29, 2016 By Chris Coyier

Say you're working on a website that uses an icon system. Lots of people who work on the site interact with the icon system. Designers create new icons, they tweak existing ones, they have ideas on what they want the icons to do. Developers building out the pages of the site use the system.

Say you're the front-end developer. You're implementing this system. You're the middle man. You're the creator and consumer of this system.

What do you ask of the designers?

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Introducing the new Framer

# April 17, 2016 By Robin Rendle

Framer, the design and code tool from Motif Tools BV, has been updated with lots of new features.

I guess it's Framer "js", because the designs you create are formed from a code syntax that is JavaScript-like. ~~Kinda looks like JSON in CoffeeScript.~~ It's CoffeeScript. But you're actually working in a native app.

It's a wild time for design tooling. Sketch had become a dominant player for screen design. Adobe knows designers don't turn to Photoshop like they used to and is making things from the ground up like Adobe XD and trying to figure out mobile. Webflow is getting it done in the browser and producing production-ready sites. InVision is also happening in the browser and focusing on teams and workflow. There are very niche tools like Lingo popping up.

The design tooling landscape in years to come will probably be as splintered as the web development tooling is now.

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