Framer's biggest update yet puts AI agents directly into the design canvas and adds team branching and a community marketplace, which together change how a site goes from idea to live.
A fine-tuned LoRA on FLUX.2-klein that takes a black-and-white manga page and a reference image and colors the line art to match the palette and style of that reference.
LoRA for coloring manga pages by reference image
JUN 10A research paper that teaches a model to read a single human-centric photo and spit out three cinematically reasoned crops, the kind of establishing-medium-close-up sequence an art director would normally plan by hand.
Auto-cropping one image into establishing, medium, and close-up shots
JUN 4A conditioning framework that lets you specify fonts in generated images without the usual tradeoff where tighter typographic control makes the actual letters fall apart.
FontFusion: font control for diffusion models that keeps text readable
JUN 4A research method that takes a static font and predicts the glyph variations needed to make it fully variable, covering weight, width, slant, and more in a single model.
NIV: turning a static font into a variable one automatically
JUN 3Roblox released open weights for a diffusion model that turns text into 3D meshes, which puts game-ready asset generation in reach for anyone with the hardware to run it.
Roblox's open diffusion model for text-to-3D mesh
MAY 27Describe a campaign in plain English and Brew builds the copy, layout, audience targeting, and send logic in one pass, which saves the usual back-and-forth between a writer, a designer, and your ESP.
Brew: AI email builder that writes, designs, and wires up automations together
MAY 26Google's Stitch generates mobile and web UI screens from text prompts on a live canvas, then hands them off to Figma or your builder of choice in one click.
Stitch 3.0: AI UI generation with direct Figma export
MAY 24TASTE is a preference dataset built by professional designers, and it shows that the AI judges most teams rely on today do not actually agree with how designers see the work.
A designer-annotated benchmark for judging AI graphic design
MAY 20A research method that converts raster images into SVGs by rethinking where anchor points go, so the result is actually editable, not just technically vector.
AnchorFlow: raster images to clean, editable SVGs
MAY 19PIXLRelight takes a photograph and a lighting specification and hands back a relit version in under a tenth of a second, using physically based rendering intrinsics to make the light actually behave like light.
Single-image relighting with PBR lighting control, under 100ms
MAY 18A research framework that treats individual hair strands as the generative unit, giving you compositional control over 3D hairstyles by scalp region and strand hierarchy.
HairGPT: strand-level 3D hair generation with semantic editing
MAY 9VAnim is a research framework that takes a text instruction and moves SVG elements through it, without the structural damage that usually comes with that territory.
Animating SVGs from text, with the vector structure intact
MAY 2A free, local desktop app that turns text prompts into web, mobile, and slide prototypes using whichever AI coding CLI you already have set up.
Open Design: local AI prototyping with your own models
APR 28A rules file you drop into Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex that steers the model away from the visual clichés that make AI-built interfaces look generic.
Hallmark: a design skill that keeps AI-generated UI from looking like AI-generated UI
APR 27A design agent that builds working prototypes using your existing styles and components, then hands the result off to engineers without the usual back-and-forth.
Magic Patterns Agent 2.0: AI prototyping from your own design system
APR 23Anthropic's design-focused Claude mode lets you talk your way to a working prototype, slide deck, or one-pager, which is useful when you need something real on screen fast.
Claude Design: prototypes and decks from conversation
APR 18A tool that lets AI coding agents read your actual Figma design system, so what they build matches your tokens and components instead of inventing their own.
Figma MCP tool for AI agents that know your design system
APR 14A set of 19 skills that wire Claude Code into Higgsfield AI, letting you drive image generation, Seedance 2.0 video, and full UGC ad pipelines from a single conversational interface.
Claude Code skills for automating Higgsfield video and ad pipelines
APR 13Feed it your visual identity and Hue produces a full design system, so any UI your AI assistant builds comes out on-brand without manual cleanup.
Hue: brand-aware design system generation for Claude Code and Codex
APR 12A Claude Code skill that bakes Material Design 3 rules directly into AI-assisted coding, so generated components stay on-spec without you chasing down the guidelines yourself.
MD3 skill for Claude Code that keeps components on-spec
APR 9Nvidia's Lyra 2.0 takes one photo and hands back a 3D asset, which cuts out a lot of the manual work that usually sits between a reference image and something you can actually use in a scene.
Lyra 2.0: single image to 3D asset
APR 6A set of skills for Claude and similar agents that wire in a structured design process, so the AI follows a deliberate path instead of throwing output at the wall.
Agent skills that give AI coding tools a design process
MAR 28Lokuma sits between your coding agents and the final output, giving tools like Claude Code or Codex something closer to actual design thinking when they build pages.
Design Agent by Lokuma: a design layer your AI agents can call
MAR 21DancingBox turns the movement of any physical object you wave in front of a webcam into a smoothed, realistic 3D character animation, with no motion capture rig required.
3D character animation from a webcam and whatever is on your desk
MAR 18A Claude Code skill that routes image generation through Gemini, so you can prompt, generate, and iterate on visuals without switching out of your coding environment.
Gemini image generation inside Claude Code
MAR 13Cardboard works through your footage as an AI collaborator, making editing decisions and assembling a cut so you spend your time refining instead of roughing out.
Cardboard: agentic video editor that takes raw footage to a cut
MAR 11Chronicle turns your notes or a rough prompt into a branded presentation draft, then lets you keep refining it through conversation rather than hunting through menus.
Chronicle 2.0: AI slide builder that talks back
MAR 1067 ready-made DESIGN.md and SKILL.md files that tell agentic tools like Claude Design, Cursor, and Codex how to handle design work the way you actually want it done.
A curated library of design skill files for AI agents
MAR 9A Figma plugin that pulls your local styles and variables out of a file and writes them into DESIGN.md and SKILL.md, so Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex can reference your real design system when it generates UI.
Export your Figma design system to markdown that AI coding tools can actually read
MAR 9A research framework that paints UV-space garment textures guided by a character reference image, keeping the result consistent across the full 3D surface without needing the reference to line up with the mesh.
GarmentPainter: diffusion-based 3D garment texture from a character photo
MAR 9A set of Claude Code skills that gives the AI enough context about ComfyUI's node APIs to actually write useful custom node code, rather than hallucinating its way through the framework.
Claude Code skills for building ComfyUI custom nodes
MAR 5Kodo takes a text prompt and returns a layered, editable design — poster, slide, social graphic — so you spend your time adjusting, not rebuilding from scratch.
Kodo: chat-to-editable-design in one step
MAR 4TypeUI gives AI coding agents like Claude and Codex a shared design vocabulary, so the UI they generate actually looks consistent instead of made-up on the spot.
TypeUI: a design system layer for AI coding tools
MAR 3Anthropic's Claude now lives inside PowerPoint itself, reading your templates and making edits in real time so you stay in one place instead of bouncing between a chat window and your deck.
Claude inside PowerPoint, for building and editing decks
FEB 22A plugin that connects Claude Code to your ComfyUI instance, so you can generate images and video, edit the graph, and manage models all from a conversation.
ComfyUI control from Claude Code via MCP
FEB 15Inspector sits between your browser and your codebase, so you can click an element, tweak it visually, and have the change land in the repo without touching your AI agent's chat window.
Visual editor that writes your UI changes to code
FEB 8A ComfyUI custom node that exposes Anima's anime and illustration generation as an API, so your AI coding agents can call it directly instead of you doing it by hand.
ComfyUI-AnimaTool: anime image generation wired up for AI agents
FEB 3A research framework that edits graphic design layouts geometrically while holding the untouched elements in place, and does it without needing matched before-and-after training pairs.
Layout editing that keeps your design's structure intact
FEB 1A research system that builds full icon grids by letting designers navigate both what an icon depicts and how detailed it looks, with a user study behind it.
Iconix: generating icon sets across meaning and complexity at once
JAN 31An open-source server that lets Claude drive Photoshop directly, so you can describe what you want done and watch it happen in the app.
Control Photoshop from Claude via MCP
JAN 26Black Forest Labs' 4-billion-parameter model handles both text-to-image and image editing in a lighter package, which makes it worth a look if the full FLUX models have been too heavy for your setup.
FLUX.2-klein-4B: a smaller FLUX model for image gen and editing
JAN 14Cowork lets Claude read, edit, and create files in a local folder so you can hand it real work instead of pasting things back and forth.
Give Claude a folder and assign it tasks
JAN 13A custom ComfyUI node that lets you position a camera in a live Three.js viewport and spits out the prompt text your multi-angle generation needs, so you stop guessing at angle descriptions.
ComfyUI node for dialing in camera angles with a 3D viewport
JAN 8A Chrome extension that lets you hover over any element on any site and pull its CSS, colors, fonts, spacing, and assets straight into your workflow.
MiroMiro: extract design assets from any website without DevTools
JAN 5A fine-tuned open model that turns a single image into a 3D mesh, built on Hunyuan3D-2.1 and free to use commercially.
UltraShape: image to 3D mesh from one photo
DEC 25Nothing cleared the bar here yet — the standard stays high.