Original video in Chinese.
Key Takeaway
- Vibe Design is officially here: Google Stitch has evolved from a simple text-to-UI tool into an AI-native design platform, supporting an infinite canvas, design document export (DESIGN.md), and direct WYSIWYG editing, completely changing designers’ workflows.
- The actual results are astonishing: just upload a rough hand-drawn sketch, and Stitch can quickly generate a complete web page (in a minimalist tech-media style). After two rounds of natural-language iteration, it can reach a usable first draft, and even ordinary people can easily finish a design.
- Signal of an industry upheaval: on the day it launched, Figma’s stock plunged 8.8%. I judge this follows the early path of Vibe Coding—within half a year to a year, AI will cover web and app design, non-professional users will be able to get started directly, and traditional designers face a real risk of losing their jobs.
The designer who may be the next to lose their job is a designer. Because Vibe Design is really here.
Look, I drew an extremely rough sketch on the iPad. It’s roughly what the homepage of a website looks like. Then I exported it to my MacBook and dragged it into Google Stitch. I asked it to help me design a web page based on this drawing.
The first version came out pretty well. Stitch gave it a “minimalist tech-media” design style, including a big-card layout, sans-serif fonts, and so on. It looked quite comfortable. It’s just that the right side wasn’t a person, which was different from what I drew.
So, after two more rounds of communication, a pretty decent first draft was done.
What I just demonstrated was the latest version of Google Stitch. The biggest difference from before is that it has gone from a simple text-to-UI tool to a fully AI-native design platform.
Don’t think this is just a version update; the entire market reacted quite violently. You see, after the new version was released, Figma’s stock plunged 8.8%, marking its biggest single-day drop in more than a month.
I saw quite a few designers on X sneering at this, thinking that what Stitch produces is very low-level and garbage. What I want to say is that a year ago, many programmers viewed AI coding the same way. And now?
I think the release of the new Stitch version is a landmark event, and it signals the arrival of Vibe Design.
First, the new version of Stitch brings an infinite canvas.
The new interface is built around an infinite canvas, very much like software such as Figma. Users can place text, images, and other materials onto the canvas. AI will automatically read these elements as context for understanding and reasoning.
Why is an infinite canvas important?
Because designers are, at their core, spatial thinkers. When they place elements together, it implies “related,” and there is no need for folders, tags, or anything else to establish connections.
And the design process naturally keeps switching back and forth between “overall strategy” and “pixel-level execution.” The zooming mechanism of an infinite canvas perfectly matches this rhythm. Designers can see the relationships among all variants and reference materials at a glance.
So for designers, if there is only a dialogue box, there is really no way to work. An infinite canvas is definitely a standard feature of Vibe Design.
Second, the new version of Stitch brings design documents.
Professional design requires consistency. Stitch allows you to export the design system in Markdown format. This means you can take that DESIGN.md document and use it in other tools.
For example, you can first complete the process from zero to one in Stitch. Once you feel the design system meets your needs, export the document and put it into Claude Code for further development.
Third, the new version of Stitch brings direct editing.
When using AI for design, one very annoying part is that any change you want to make requires running the prompt again. If you run into a model with weaker instruction-following, the more you change it, the worse it may get. Your blood pressure really can spike.
The new version of Stitch lets you edit directly. You can absolutely jump in and make adjustments yourself. This return to the WYSIWYG editing experience of traditional design tools is truly wonderful!
I think these three updates are the most core and the most important. With them as a baseline, Vibe Design can actually be a real thing.
I myself have been experiencing the early stages of Vibe Coding all the way through. From VS Code to Cursor to Claude Code, I’ve used these AI coding tools and watched with my own eyes as they went from being able to do only code completion at the beginning to now being able to replace ordinary programmers. Even OpenClaw, which is so popular now, was made possible thanks to them.
Now look at today’s Vibe Design. Yes, the work Google Stitch produces is still a bit rough and can only do standardized web pages for now. But the foundation is already in place. For non-professional designers, using it to make a first draft is completely fine. This development path is basically the same as the one on the coding side.
What about half a year or a year from now? AI’s taste in design will improve, and what it excels at will not be limited to websites; it will also include app design and more.
So, just wait. You’re welcome to dig this up later and see whether I was right.
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