Google Stitch Is Better Than Most Designers Now

So, what you see here is a Figma killer. This is Google Stitch that designs for you and can also send it to Google AI Studio to build it for you. Command AI. What I did here, I gave it a prompt, basically telling it to create an agency website using dark and red colors, and that's pretty much it. First, it did this. Um and then it did this. I think it just didn't complete it and then I said continue. It didn't understand. Uh but I asked it to create a few other version of the homepage. Uh a piece of the prompt was build a web or like design a WebGL driven flower. This is the design that I'm going um with for my own agency. Let's get just a tiny bit into like how everything looks. It is all right. It's not award-winning. But one thing that most people forget, and this is like the design Twitter going crazy right now. Everyone is trolling the announcements, showing like amazing work, and be like Google did this in one prompt. Just trolling Google saying like it can't do it. Yes, it can't do this level of work, but something that most people forget, this is getting into like good template territory. So, it's essentially you not needing a template, but having your own template Mhm. with a few prompts. That is not little. It is it is quite significant, and it is enough for many people. save Yeah, it's going to save a lot of people. Yeah. But something that a lot of people forget, especially like these good designers, like right? These are not good enough for me to to use in my agency, but I see tons of people like making money with design. They are like actually it's not just like hobby designers, people who do design who are not doing design this good. I'm not saying this is like particularly amazing. I know I see like tons of issues with it. But still, there are people that are not this good, and they make a living with design. Now, for how long? That That is the new question, because I don't feel like they can do this for much longer. Anyway, so here is another one. Ah, it's You know, I see the issues with it. It's not that it's perfect. I see all the typography and the color and the hierarchy issues. mate. So, Yeah, it is one shot, but like this is pretty good. Like these cards are perfect, but these are pretty good. Thing is the the the single uh comeback that you can say to any AI design is, "Yeah, but it's been done before." To any does any AI generated design, cuz it's it's been done before by its very nature of design. Yeah, it's been done before. So, it's not original. But I want to quickly um cover Variant AI, variant.com. Here I did a project where I had the same essentially the same prompt. And here, this one did I would say significantly better. But the variety of the design is also Oh, this is cool. I like this. I love them. I actually cuz thing is you're going to have more of an eye for design. I I, you know, I think I have good taste, and I think I know what okay design is, but I'm I love I love some of those. The red is very nice. I think it's more to do with your color than um Yeah, and these are also pretty good. It's crazy that these tools are getting this good, Yeah. and designers are still not afraid. Some Some designers. Anyway, Stitch is obviously using Gemini 3.1 Pro, right? Which we did the test. I pray I've always praised Gemini as being a very good design not necessarily design fundamentals like like with like I bet you look at these designs and think, "Oh, you know, spacing or whatever." But generally as a first stop inspiration piece, I think Gemini is a really good design designer or whatever you want to call it. Um but again, I'd be quite interested to know what models are producing the Variant, unless they've got a multi-pass thing or something like that. I'm I'm looking on Stitch's Twitter right now. So, there are five major upgrades to help you create idea iterate and collaborate. AI native canvas. So, what I think this is is that you can actually prompt individual elements and things like that to, you know, be a bit more finessed over your design. Whereas before, you had one prompt box, and you were sort of stuck with that. You know, um I think don't take my word on all this stuff. Smart design agent. Yes, of course, it's using Gemini 3.1 Pro, right? Voice. Voice input, whatever. Instant prototypes. Again, I think it's that AI design thing, but that's not new, so there must be something a little bit more in-depth there. And then finally, design systems in a design.md file, which is what I told you when you did export it exported an MD. So, you can actually edit and change the design system through markdown, and keep track of everything and be and know what's going on through the markdown file. So, visually as well as I don't know what the opposite of looking at it technically, I don't know. But I do wonder, and I do think that a lot of the hype has come out that because there's been an update, and it's quite a nice update, people are just starting to learn about this tool, which has been out nearly a year now. And it's like like I think they're just really really late to the party. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I'm feeling like right now. It's just a nice update, and only people are now are just finding out about it, which we we reported on it last year when it first came out. Um it is just a bit better, and maybe that is going to tip towards from something that people love at uh to something that you can potentially use to explore. Just like you said uh with the other tool, Variant AI, may maybe this is good for exploration, but soon maybe more than that. Fi- Figma shares dropped dropped because of this. So, I think the market Yeah, is noticing uh This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter. Command AI.