AI this, AI that… You’ve heard us talk about it all year long. Creepy pictures of bunnies in space, beautiful sceneries of utopic worlds, and more recently, sharp profile pictures for your social media.

If you’re a regular here, you don’t need another recap of the awesome tools utilizing the latest developments in image generation. Today, we’re going old school.

Here are 7 design tools that caught our attention recently:

• tinykiwi is an image editor that lets you design anything from eye-catching screenshots for social media and blog post covers to open graph images.

• html.to.design converts any website into fully editable Figma designs. 

• This pack of holographic abstract 3D backgrounds for Figma from Wannathis is 🤌 chef’s kiss.

• Pixelied's free mockup generator helps you produce designs using editable mockup templates.

• Womp Alpha is a new browser-based 3D creation and publishing app. 

• Tylify helps you create seamless patterns (SVG, PNG, CSS) and is available as a Figma plugin and a standalone web app.

• Mockups by designstripe is an in-browser tool for designing device mockups. 

What did we miss?

• Alex MacCaw, founder of Clearbit and Reflect is hosting an AMA in Discussions. Ask him your most burning questions. 🔥 

• Magic Studio lets you generate marketing product photos from a single image and a short text description.

• Before the MVP: get clarity on your ideas before you start building.

• There’s still (a little!) time to keep that New Year’s resolution. Learn how to code in Python, HTML/CSS, or JavaScript with Codédex. 

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