Figma dropped 8% yesterday, same day Google (re)launched Stitch.

Figma is also down 80% from its IPO price in August 2025, make of that what you will.

I spent a few hours with Stitch this week. Here's what I found.

But before that, catching up on AI this week:

1. InfrOS: Predict and validate cloud architectures before you launch them. InfrOS designs and validates cloud architectures aligned to your priorities, then proves the outcomes through emulation before deployment so you're not finding out what breaks in production.

2. OctoClaw: Hire an AI specialist for marketing, sales, or support and wake up to work already done. Pick a specialist, connect your tools, and every output appears inside the tools you already use.

3. Doodles AI: An AI image tool trained on nothing but its own IP. Prism 1.0 was trained solely on Doodles-owned original illustrations, character designs, and color palettes, no images from other artists, no public datasets and the long-term goal is to produce the first feature film built entirely through it.

Google Labs just overhauled their AI design tool, and termed “vibe-design”

You describe what you want to build in plain English, or just speak it out loud, and Stitch generates a full, high-fidelity UI.

Screens, flows, components, a complete design system, all in seconds.

It's been around for a while but this week's update changed the category.

Prompt: A mobile app for solo travelers to split restaurant bills with strangers at their table. Target user: 28-year-old backpacker. Vibe: friendly, a little chaotic, gets out of the way fast.

Result:

Four screens came back in under 10 seconds.

A QR scanner to join nearby tables, live bill feed where you claim or split individual dishes, a settlement screen with a tip selector and "Settle Up" CTA and a profile with a "Table Vibe" section showing how you prefer to split.

I didn't ask for any of that specifically. I said "friendly, a little chaotic, gets out of the way fast" and Stitch built a product logic around it.

The bills screen has a mood slider at the bottom. "Safe & Planned" on one end, "Wild & Random" on the other.

That's UI that came from interpreting the vibe.

The design system it generated called the north star "Organized Spontaneity" which is exactly right for the brief I gave it.

The output isn't "good for AI", it's just good. If a freelancer sent me these screens I'd be happy with the work.

One honest caveat: the prompt was specific. "28-year-old backpacker, friendly, a little chaotic" gave Stitch a lot to work with.

I suspect a vague prompt gets you something much more template-looking. The tool rewards people who can describe what they want, which is a skill in itself.

I then continued prototyping to sense the speed at which i can and i now had 5 home screen designs - all with a certain thought and rationalisation ready to showcase.

Honestly they all make sense.

“Surprise me” is the laziest approach imo and the design too feels meh.

The idea of a slider for spontaneity is pretty novel and as a backpacker i’d love to play around with it based on my mood.

Then i was not happy with the original profile page, felt it was lazy and i love Airbnb’s profile page so much i care to maintain it, so i gave stitch the reference and asked it to give me 3 wild ideas.

And honestly i am underwhelmed

Especially after coming off of Variant, these iterations feel very bland.

The dining timeline profile just goes way off tangent, the vibe aura profile sounds cool on paper but the design does not feel suitable for a mobile app.

The passport scrapbook profile seemed the most appealing and it did a pretty good job getting the right inspiration from the Airbnb design but overall its still not something i’d go ahead with.

There’s so much to explore and there’s one thing to instantly generate a web version of a screen you like.

Since the vibe aura profile seemed more desktop-esque to me i generated a web version of it.

And frankly speaking Stitch missed the assignment.

Its a completely different vibe and design from what i was expecting and has elements that are not even meant to be a part of the profile.

I can also one click and edit the design system for respective screens! so check this out:

From the iteration above to below it’d take me well over an hour to rawdog. but this really took me 15 seconds.

Prompt: I'm building a journaling app. Give me three completely different directions: one for the person who journals for therapy, one for the person who journals for productivity, one for the person who just wants a place to brain-dump.

Result:

Stitch spun up three agents in parallel and came back with three distinct designs.

I didn't love any of them outright, but all three were coherent and clearly built for different people.

The third felt most familiar. Reminded me of the better wellness apps already on the Play Store, which is either a compliment or a sign it's drawing from a template.

The interesting part was when I activated voice mode, selected the therapy screen, and just said out loud: "Make this more minimal."

It updated in real time while I was talking.

That felt closer to working with a designer who's in the room with you.

I gave Stitch Blinkit's URL and asked it to extract the design system, then build a grocery delivery app for tier-2 cities using the same design language, but slower, warmer, less aggressive.

The result looked like First Club.

If you've used First Club you know exactly what I mean. Warmer palette, unhurried layout, premium but not cold.

Some elements were close enough.

Stitch basically took Blinkit's bones, felt the brief, and produced something that already exists and works well in the Indian market.

Whether that's impressive or concerning probably depends on who's asking.

There’s so much more to explore with Stitch, like you can edit your design system and design.md file.

The new stitch has really delivered.

Iremember trying it a while back and while it was good back then, now its great.

I can imagine my developers using this to rapidly iterate and get approval on designs and ship every day instead of every week.

The brief-to-prototype gap is gone. You speak, it builds.

The design system is now a DESIGN.md file i.e. a plain text document, version controlled, portable, readable by any AI tool in your stack.

Your entire visual brand in something that looks like a README.

Every design agency currently charging for wireframes, component libraries, and prototype reviews needs a new answer for what they're selling.

The time it took to translate a brief into pixels just collapsed.

Although the one thing Stitch can't do is know what to brief, that's still your job.

Until next time,
Vaibhav 🤝🏻

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