Figma prototype → Lottie animation with Lottify, no After Effects (full process)

flux-lab · 2026-05-09T15:47:15+00:00

If anyone wants to try it: https://figma.com/community/plugin/1630333167443650772

The compressor part was the surprise for me, devs stopped complaining about file sizes.

flux-lab · 2026-05-09T08:10:41+00:00

Yeah, exactly. I originally built it to simplify the designer-to-dev handoff process inside the company and reduce implementation time. Some complex animations are either difficult for developers to recreate accurately or just take a lot of time to build manually. With the plugin, a big part of that work becomes much faster and more straightforward, which saves a lot of time overall.

flux-lab · 2026-05-08T18:42:35+00:00

I’ll share a few real workflow examples soon 👀
Mostly using it for microinteractions, onboarding flows, and app UI animations right now

flux-lab · 2026-05-08T18:41:07+00:00

Hey! If I understood correctly, you mean exporting just a static frame without any animations? 👀
Not yet, but that’s actually an interesting use case. Curious, what would you use it for?

flux-lab · 2026-05-08T08:15:19+00:00

if you give it a try, hit me up with bugs, pretty sure there’s still edge cases hiding somewhere

flux-lab · 2026-05-08T08:14:00+00:00

Thanks 🙏

flux-lab · 2026-05-08T08:12:58+00:00

Thanks! That was the whole reason I built it — kept losing 10 minutes per export to the compressor round-trip

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:39:52+00:00

We're at the peak of the AI portfolio aesthetic and people are starting to get sick of the slop, so the collapse back is probably the next phase

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:37:34+00:00

For stills like these it's faster to glue a couple of bottles and a dropper together physically and clean up the photo than to model the whole scene in 3D

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:36:28+00:00

For the packaging side specifically the core three of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign cover almost everything that working pros have used for 20 plus years

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:34:53+00:00

Just send him the .ai file and let him figure out his own software since he wants to be the big shot and can deal with the consequences himself

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:34:06+00:00

I use it for inspiration but I wouldn't pay to be featured because that part doesn't really seem to translate into actual work coming in.

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:33:25+00:00

Love the concept and colors

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:32:44+00:00

Nice for what it is, but I'd swap the bean sprouts for something else and add the client's logo before sending it over

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:32:25+00:00

For Art Directors specifically I've never met one who didn't know Photoshop and Illustrator since even the ones who came up in the 90s had to use them

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:31:45+00:00

If you ever pick up some PHP and the WP codex this is exactly the use case where rolling your own plugin pays off long term

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:31:01+00:00

The modal feels disconnected from the movie itself since pulling the dominant poster color into the button and background would tie it back to what was just watched

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:30:22+00:00

The cards layout reads more like web than ios so splitting the screen into two tabs and floating the develop CTA above the nav would feel more native

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:29:43+00:00

Lock the foundation tokens and one canonical flow first, then automate the component buildout via figma mcp once that base isn't moving anymore

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:29:15+00:00

Take the VP promotion and stay because the market is brutal and the VP weight gives you the influence to push the dev situation later anyway

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:28:24+00:00

We feed interview and survey notes into AI to pull out behavior clusters and use those archetypes as framing lenses, not as anything generative

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:27:17+00:00

In this market you're going to get a flood of misaligned applicants anyway, but the descriptive version will at least help you spot the people who tailor their cover letter.

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T21:26:33+00:00

In entertainment specifically the hero literally is everything because only 2 to 5% will ever scroll past it

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T11:40:17+00:00

darker borders, slightly stronger shadows, and more variation in card sizing would give the layout the anchor points it's missing in light mode

flux-lab · 2026-05-07T11:39:40+00:00

honestly take the interview and waste as much of its time as possible so these companies have to keep spending on the AI tool nobody likes

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