Usekernel changelog
Usekernel changelog
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Generating article and company placeholder content

 

New

  

With the new content, you can:

  • Generate related and realistic placeholder company content (e.g. for a list of customers) or article content (e.g placeholder text) and quickly apply it to your designs in Figma.
  • Generate a range of other content such as dates, numbers and short text.
  • Still add your own real content from sources like Google Sheets, CSVs, Airtable, Notion and JSON.

Performance improvements

 

Improvement

  

Making the Kernel plugin faster.

  • Reduced Plugin slowness on load
  • Reduced slowness when selecting a content schema
  • Reduced slowness when saving a config

New content generator

 

New

  

We’ve launched a new content generator that lets you quickly generate placeholder content.

With the new Kernel content generator, you can:

  • Quickly generate realistic and related placeholder profile content like usernames, email addresses, avatars and more.
  • Generate a range of other content such as dates, numbers and short text
  • Apply the generated content quickly to your designs

Improvements to sorting in the plugin

 

Improvement

  
  • We've improved the sorting feature in the Figma plugin, making it easier to sort your content by number or date

Added support for uploading content from JSON files

 

New

  
  • Users can now import JSON files into Kernel and use the content in Figma.
  • Improved the file upload feature to accept JSON files.
  • Users can now create and manage content using JSON files in Figma via Kernel.
  • Added documentation on how to import JSON files into Kernel and use the content in Figma.

Introducing CSV and Airtable support

 

New

  
  • You can now connect your content to Kernel using CSV files and Airtable.
  • No more copy-pasting. With just a few clicks, you can now easily import data from CSV files and Airtable directly into Kernel.