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    Magic Patterns

    North Park Labs

    AI prototyping for product teams — generate UI in your own design system.

    An AI design tool that turns prompts into working UI prototypes product teams can test with users and hand to engineering. Version 2.0 imports components from Figma, Storybook, or any website via its Chrome extension, so generated screens match your real design system rather than generic mockups. Includes real-time collaboration and a free tier to start.

    Worth knowing

    Grew profitably to $1M ARR with zero full-time employees before raising a $6M Series A led by Standard Capital in November 2025.

    • prototyping
    • design-systems
    • ui-generation
    • product-teams
  • View Stitch details
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    Stitch

    Google

    Google Labs experiment that turns prompts and sketches into UI designs and frontend code.

    An AI design tool from Google Labs that generates app and website interfaces from natural-language prompts, images, wireframes, or sketches. It produces multiple design variants, exports clean layouts to Figma, and outputs frontend code (HTML/CSS, Tailwind), with a voice-driven Live Mode for real-time adjustments. Powered by Gemini's multimodal capabilities and free with generous limits while in beta.

    Worth knowing

    Born from Google's May 2025 acquisition of Galileo AI, whose standalone UI generator was folded into Google Labs as Stitch.

    • ui-design
    • design-to-code
    • figma-export
    • google-labs
    • +1
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    Canva

    Canva

    All-in-one design platform with the Magic Studio AI suite.

    Browser-based graphic design platform spanning social, presentations, docs, and print. Its Magic Studio AI suite bundles Magic Design (text/image-to-design), Magic Write, Dream Lab image generation, Magic Edit/Eraser, and Magic Resize, all wired to your Brand Kit for on-brand output.

    Worth knowing

    Bought image-AI lab Leonardo.Ai and design tool Affinity in 2024; valued around $42B by 2025 after years of profitability.

    • design
    • graphic-design
    • branding
    • templates
    • +1
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    Uizard

    Miro

    AI UI design: generate editable wireframes, mockups, and prototypes from a prompt.

    A browser-based UI design tool that turns text prompts, hand-drawn sketches, and screenshots into editable mockups and clickable prototypes. Its Autodesigner generates whole multi-screen projects with themes, and a Screenshot Scanner converts existing app screens into editable designs. Aimed at non-designers and PMs who want usable UI fast.

    Worth knowing

    Grew out of founder Tony Beltramelli's pix2code research in Copenhagen; acquired by Miro in 2024.

    • ui-design
    • wireframing
    • prototyping
    • no-code
    • +1
  • View Khroma details
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    Khroma

    Khroma

    AI color tool that learns your taste and generates personalized palettes.

    A color tool for designers that trains a personal neural-network model on a set of colors you like, then generates thousands of combinations it predicts you'll prefer. Results come with WCAG accessibility ratings and previews as gradients, type, and posters. Free, no account required, and runs in the browser.

    Worth knowing

    Built by a single product designer, George Hastings, inspired by Tobias van Schneider's hand-made Color Claim palettes.

    • color
    • palettes
    • accessibility
    • design
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    Adobe Express

    Adobe

    Quick-design app with Firefly generative AI, templates, and brand kits.

    Adobe's lightweight design app for social graphics, flyers, videos, and PDFs, combining thousands of templates with Firefly-powered generative AI. Features include text-to-image, generative fill, background removal, text effects, and brand kits. It pairs a free tier with a Premium plan and is included with most Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions.

    Worth knowing

    Rebranded from Adobe Spark in 2021-22, inheriting that app's templates before Firefly AI was bolted on.

    • design
    • templates
    • generative-ai
    • branding
    • +1
  • View Looka details
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    Looka

    Looka

    AI logo maker and brand kit generator for entrepreneurs.

    An AI-driven branding tool that generates logo concepts from your company name, industry, and style preferences, then lets you customize colors, fonts, and layout. A Brand Kit subscription extends a finished logo into 300+ branded marketing templates and, on the top tier, an AI-generated website. Designing is free; downloading requires a purchase.

    Worth knowing

    Launched in 2016 as Logojoy; its 2019 rebrand to Looka cut revenue ~50% and triggered layoffs after an SEO collapse.

    • logo
    • branding
    • brand-kit
    • design
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    Figma AI

    Figma

    AI design and prompt-to-code built into Figma.

    Figma's AI layer for product design: First Draft generates editable layouts from a prompt, content tools fill real copy, and a canvas Design Agent edits via natural language. Figma Make turns prompts into working prototypes, and the Figma MCP server pipes design context into coding tools.

    Worth knowing

    Adobe's $20B deal to buy Figma collapsed in Dec 2023 over regulators, forcing a $1B breakup fee; Figma IPO'd in 2025.

    • design
    • ui-design
    • prototyping
    • prompt-to-code
    • +1
  • View Microsoft Designer details
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    Microsoft Designer

    Microsoft

    AI graphic design app for social posts, invites, and images.

    Microsoft's AI-powered graphic design app that generates social media graphics, invitations, stickers, and images from a text prompt, with template suggestions and brand-aware editing. It includes AI image generation and editing, and is free with a Microsoft account on a monthly AI-credit allowance, with more credits for Microsoft 365 subscribers.

    Worth knowing

    Its AI image generation is powered by OpenAI's DALL-E, the model that launched Designer back in 2022.

    • design
    • graphic-design
    • templates
    • image-generation
    • +1
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    Photoroom

    Photoroom

    AI photo editor and listing studio for product images.

    An AI photo editor focused on product photography — background removal, product staging, virtual models, batch exports, and templates for marketplaces. Available on web and mobile, with an API for generating commerce visuals at scale. Built on the company's own image and segmentation models.

    Worth knowing

    Paris-based, founded in 2019; raised a $43M Series B at a $500M valuation in 2024 with Yann LeCun among its backers.

    • photo-editing
    • background-removal
    • e-commerce
    • product-photography
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    Recraft

    Recraft

    Design-grade image + vector generation with brand consistency.

    Image generator aimed at designers — raster and true vector (SVG) output, brand style sets, mockups, and precise control. Strong when assets need to ship into real design work.

    Worth knowing

    Its V3 model (codenamed ‘Red Panda’) topped the Artificial Analysis text-to-image leaderboard in Oct 2024, beating Midjourney and DALL-E 3.

    • image-gen
    • vector
    • design
    • brand