Figma

Killed the design file as a thing you email.

What it is sold for

Designing interfaces collaboratively.

Named alongside

These entries mention each other by name. It is a weak relationship and it is the only one the catalogue can show without inventing something.

Named by:

• Figma AI
  Model features inside Figma for search, generation and the repetitive parts of design work.
• Kombai
  Generates front-end code from designs, aiming at production markup rather than an approximation of the layout.
• Tempo
  Turns feedback, issues and requirements into reviewed pull requests, with people approving the decisions that matter.

Same shelf

The rest of design and media, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.

• APITemplate.io
  Generates PDFs and images from reusable templates over an API, so document rendering is not something you build.
• Bytescale
  File storage with image and video processing on the delivery path, so transforms are URL parameters.
• Chakra UI
  A React component system with accessibility and theming built into the primitives rather than layered on.
• Cloudinary
  Media storage with transformation and delivery, the long-standing default for images that must exist at twelve sizes.
• Dyte
  Real-time audio and video as a toolkit, so live features do not require running media infrastructure.
• Flatfile
  Handles the customer data import: extraction, mapping, validation and the mess in the spreadsheet they sent.
• ImageKit
  Real-time image and video optimisation with a digital asset manager attached.
• imgix
  Image processing and delivery driven by URL parameters, one of the earliest to work this way.

All 16 in design and media