Stay on the Cutting Edge of AI & Design

Let’s set the scene. You’re 5,412 layers deep and still counting, grappling with the existential question of whether your CTA needs 16 or 20px of vertical padding. You call your mom, but she doesn’t answer. It’s well past her bedtime … plus she still thinks you doodle for a living. You’re sleep deprived, touch starved, and the closest thing you’ve consumed resembling basic nutrition in the past 12 hours is the crumpled lemon-lime electrolyte packet you found at the bottom of your work bag. Shocker, but those $8.99 blue-light glasses you ordered at 2 AM aren’t helping your migraine. Exasperated, you exclaim, “The robots are taking our jobs?! LET ‘EM.”

Sound familiar? Good thing is, we’re here to answer your cries for help (even if your mom won’t). Welcome to the Magestic Newsletter! Hold on a sec, wondering how you got here? Well, you signed up for a sweet sweet plugin, and now you’re in for a weekly dose of the latest in AI and design.

🔮 What to expect

AI and design trends are moving so rapidly these days, it can feel daunting to keep up. So, we’ll do the heaving lifting for you! Each week you’ll get bite-sized bullets on the newest developments in AI and design. Supercharge your flow with Figma plugin recommendations, the latest Stable Diffusion prompt practices, the best new tools, and more. Welcome to a community of 20k+ designers and developers obsessed with generative tech.

Alrighty … ready for some knowledge?

🐇 Stable diffusion tips & tricks

• Free ebook on prompt-writing best practices (don’t worry, it’s mostly pictures)

• Need help getting the most out of the Magestic plugin? Check out this quick demo

🔌 Featured plugins

• Figma Autoname: Rename your Figma layers in just one click using your own Teachable Machine model

• Attention Insight: Predict how users will engage with your designs using attention heatmaps, clarity scores, and more

• Cube Font Replacer: Replace your fonts in bulk without losing your previous styles

• Dark Mode Magic: Generate a dark mode color palette from an existing light mode palette (Top tip: duplicate your designs prior to running the plugin to avoid losing your previous styles)

• WireGen: Generate wireframe designs using ChatGPT

🧠 Grow your mind

• Are we placing too much trust in AI? How do we empower user decision-making while leveraging the time-cutting capacity of AI systems? This Medium post has the answers.

• Google just released their beta version of SynthID, a tool that embeds AI-generated images with a digital watermark at the pixel level. Irremovable and undetectable to the human eye, these watermarks represent a larger effort to combat the spread of misinformation.

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