News, workflows, and honest takes on AI for web designers, from site builders and agents to getting a design live.
21 articles
4 min read· 4 min read
Framer's Convert add-on now works with the Framer Agent, so you can ask it to build, edit, and analyze A/B tests, funnels, and triggers. Convert also picked up country-based triggers, and a rebuilt Agent harness gives outside agents the same reach through MCP.
Web, UI/UX
7 min read· 7 min read
Webflow can draft alt text for a whole site in one pass, and Framer plugins can too. Accessibility guides agree the drafts describe what an image looks like, not why it's on the page. Here's how to sort, generate, and review so the result actually helps screen reader users.
Web
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Framer's official MCP server connects outside AI tools straight to your projects. The agent can edit the canvas, manage CMS content, and publish, and nothing needs to be open or installed on your machine.
Web, UI/UX
3 min read· 3 min read
Spline now hosts its MCP server, so you can connect ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools by signing in with your Spline account, no desktop app or API key required. The same update brings PBR materials and timeline animations to native iOS and Android exports.
3D, Web
3 min read· 3 min read
Agents connected to Webflow can now read page-level Analyze traffic, Optimize experiment results, and AEO Analytics, and Google Gemini joins Claude and ChatGPT as a way to connect.
Web
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At Config India, Figma opened code-backed prototypes on the canvas to everyone and introduced Specs, a Markdown document that lives next to your designs and can be handed to a coding agent. Code layers were free to create and edit on paid plans through November 4, and now use AI credits.
UI/UX, Web
3 min read· 3 min read
Prompt a site in Figma Make and it can now set up a database, file storage, user login, and an admin panel your client can edit, all hosted by Figma. The hosting is free while it's in beta, and Figma says pricing will be announced before it takes effect.
Web
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Google opened up its newest frontier model on October 13, and Figma Make got it the same day. In the Gemini app it's for paying subscribers only, but in Figma Make it's listed for all plans. Figma warns that credit use for non-default models can vary a lot.
UI/UX, Web
6 min read· 6 min read
Figma can build custom shader fills and effects from a plain-language prompt, including animated and cursor-reactive ones. Pulling together Figma's docs, independent write-ups, and forum threads, here's how to use them and where they still fall short.
UI/UX, Web
3 min read· 3 min read
Webflow added agentic translation to Localize: a one-time pass you review, or a continuous mode that retranslates every change to your primary content, plus rules for keeping some content out of AI's hands entirely.
Web
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Canvas lays out every page of a Shopify store on one zoomable workspace and has Sidekick, Shopify's AI agent, write the theme code as you talk. It's early, and the fine print matters a lot if you build stores for clients.
Web
3 min read· 3 min read
Paste a company website or upload a brand guidelines PDF, and Canva's Brand Kit Builder pulls out logos, colors, fonts, and brand voice on its own, rolled out as part of Canva's September 2026 feature drop.
Brand & Graphic, Web
4 min read· 4 min read
Developer Vishwas Gopinath's write-up on connecting Claude Code to Figma's MCP server still holds up as a technique, though Figma has since replaced his exact setup steps with a plugin-based flow. Here's why it's worth doing and where Figma's current instructions actually live.
Web, UI/UX
3 min read· 3 min read
Independent essays published months apart keep landing on the same diagnosis: AI design and coding tools converge on the same look, and the fix is deliberate constraint, not a better prompt.
UI/UX, Web
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Across months of threads on Figma's community forum, the same pattern keeps showing up: Figma Make's credit system charges for the corrections its own AI output makes necessary, and people are running out fast.
UI/UX, Web
4 min read· 4 min read
Designer Roberto Moreno Celta's published breakdown of why most Figma variable setups collapse, and the naming and handoff workflow he uses instead to keep design and code actually in sync.
Web, UI/UX
5 min read· 5 min read
Most people who use Firefly inside Photoshop know two moves: fill a resize, erase an object. A look across Adobe's own documentation and independent tutorials turns up a model picker, a free removal path, and a reference-image workflow most people never open.
Photo & Imaging, Brand & Graphic, Web
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A quiet Firefly update triples the crop options for GPT Image 2 on the web and in Boards. Small on paper, useful in practice if you generate assets for more than one placement.
Photo & Imaging, Illustration, Brand & Graphic, Web
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Framer's Skills feature lets you save reusable instructions, for a design system, a writing style, or a CMS workflow, that its AI agent follows across tasks instead of you re-explaining your conventions every time.
Web, UI/UX
3 min read· 3 min read
Spline's V2 relaunch adds an in-editor AI agent that can build and edit full 3D scenes from a prompt, plus an MCP server so tools like Claude Code and Cursor can drive the editor directly.
3D, Web
2 min read· 2 min read
Agent Instructions, Webflow's context files for AI agents working on a site, can now be generated from a site you've already built, covering brand voice, design system, assets, and CMS content.
Web, UI/UX, Brand & Graphic