Design Thursday #93
A weekly recap of everything you need to know about tools, events, guidelines and design in general.
Claude Code to Figma
Figma MCP can now bring back your code onto the canvas. This will make it possible to visualize pages of your web app, states of components, or flows in design to further iterate on them. Right now, it only works for web projects and via the remote version of Figma MCP.
Read more about Claude Code to Figma
Sketch Implement Design Skill
Sketch publishes a first of more to come skills, the first one being, "Implement Design". It's meant to help AI agents to turn your design into code more easily. By helping to inspect the design, extract visual hierarchy, gather colors, typography, export assets, and most importantly, write the implementation. It works together with Sketch MCP to gather all the design info needed.
Recraft V4
Recraft released the fourth version of their image generation model. The goal is to make images that are ready for actual use. It’s focussed on visual taste, prompt accuracy, and output quality. In the examples in the announcement post, you can see that images look way more realistic than other image generation counterparts and are more creative. It looks great for branding and marketing material.
See what you can do with Recraft V4
Framer Server API
Framer introduced a new Server API which allows you to control Framer the same way a plugin would, just without opening Framer. You could sync your CMS collection with Notion, or build a custom CMS where you can update the website from Slack. This allows you to make building a site in Framer even more seamless.
Learn more about the Server API
AI in UX & Product Design 2026
Designlab published their 2026 survey report that showcases how product designers and other design roles are adopting AI. It goes over what tools get used, for what workflows, where does AI impact the most, what challenges does everyone face and what are the predictions for the future.
