While new design projects might not be on the top of your mind heading into the holiday season and end of the year, there are still new tools for designers and productivity to help you stay on track. Even if you aren’t in a space to try them now, this is the perfect opportunity to bookmark these tools for later.
Highlights include a new visual editor, better artificial intelligence tools, and even something to help you monetize illustrations and design work.
Here’s what’s new for designers.
Layrr
Layrr is a free and open-source visual editing tool for your codebase. You can drag and resize components, convert Figma to code, edit text in-browser, or design with AI, all while working with real files in your repo. The design with AI feature lets you describe what you want in plain English and watch it happen on screen. Plus, it is framework agnostic (React, Vue, Svelte, HTML) and can be deployed anywhere.
Getillustrations
Getillustrations is a set of human-made vector graphics that you can use in projects. New collections are released each week and there are paid and free options. Everything is royalty Free, empty state illustrations library in vector SVG, Ai, and PNG formats.
Build0
Build0 is here to help you build custom internal apps without code! Build secure internal apps and AI workflows that actually match how your team works yourself. One prompt gets you a fully working enterprise-grade app that you can use and share immediately: frontend, backend, database, and security/privacy built-in (auth, permissions, audit logs). Connect to your own database or any third-party tools like HubSpot, Airtable, Sheets, Stripe, and more. It’s free for single users and has paid options for teams.
AI Context Flow
AI Context Flow will help you create better, more consistent AI prompts with a simple Chrome extension. Over 1 billion users repeat the same context everywhere. This tool lets you save it a prompt and then use it anywhere, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more. Speed up workflow with smarter prompts and less repetition.
Parallaxium Font
Parallaxium is a bold, futuristic display font that merges cosmic motion with sci-fi sophistication. Its sleek curves, elongated lines, and geometric flair make it perfect for game titles, movie posters, and tech branding. Designed to evoke a sense of space and imagination, it transforms any text into a visual journey through the stars. With formats including OTF, TTF, WOFF, and WOFF2, it’s ready for any digital or print project.
Droit UI
Droit UI is more than a kit of tools and components; it is a customizable Figma design system. Here’s what you’ll find: 7,100 components and variants, 1,100 asset collections, 675 global style variables, 365 widgets, and everything is WCAG 2.1 compliant. It’s also packed with customizable options for color, typography, and more so that your design system isn’t a template, it is truly your own.
Payhip
Payhip is an e-commerce platform designed specifically for digital products. Sell digital products, courses, coaching, memberships or physical products directly. Embed Payhip into your website or use the integrated storefront to sell your work. Payhip takes care of everything as an all-in-one ecommerce solution for creators. You can try it for free to see if this is the right tool for you (paid plans have lower transaction fees).
TheBoringNotch
Have you ever wanted that dead space on your Mac screen to do more? TheBoringNotch solves that problem. It transforms your Mac’s notch into a smart mini‑dock: music controls with album art and visualizer, a file shelf with AirDrop, upcoming calendar events, quick mirror for camera checks, and battery/charging indicators that feels native to the Mac. (Personally, I love it for the music controls!)
Riverside
Riverside is your podcast and content production studio. It is an AI-powered platform that lets you record, edit, repurpose, and distribute studio-quality content as easily as if you had a crew behind you. It works for podcasts, social video, interviews, transcribing, and video marketing. The best part might be the sound editing tools that takes out all the noise you don’t need. Everything is polished and ready for primetime!
Social Media Kit
Social Media Kit is designed to help you create fresh social content in minutes with more than 300 customizable Figma temples, 1,000-plus example posts, and a lifetime subscription with free updates. This tool is great for social media managers and designers creating large volumes of content.
Base 44
Base44, another no-code tool, lets you build fully-functional apps in minutes. Their motto is “if you can describe it, you can build it.” Tell Base44 your idea, and watch it transform into a working app—complete with all the necessary components, pages, flows and features. Everything your idea needs to function happens behind the scenes: sign in, save data, or create role-based permissions. Then it is ready to use, with built-in hosting.
Promptacore
Promptacore lets AI handle the prompting for you before you ask something to AI! With Promptacore, describe your task and let AI craft the perfect prompt, manage thoughts in the prompt management system for reuse. Then use the Chrome Extension to apply, save, and optimize your prompts across your favorite websites. The best feature might be dynamic prompt usage, which allows you to do things like create automatic email replies.
Ko-fi
Ko-fi is a fun tool for anyone thinking about trying to monetize their design work. The platform helps creators such as illustrators, podcasters and bloggers receive financial support from fans of their work. Here’s how it works: Create a free account, connect your own payment method (you get paid directly on Ko-fi), share it with your fans, and start earning in just a few minutes. Ko-fi has everything you need to create, share, and make money on your terms.
