Google’s Stitch UI design tool is now AI-powered

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Mar 20, 20261 min

Letting AI write code is no longer enough: Now Google wants it to take over the interface design too.

Mountain View, CA, USA - Nov 24, 2023: Giant G logo is seen at Google's new Bay View campus, an all-electric campus totaling 1.1 million square at its headquarters in Mountain View, California.
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Google is introducing AI into its Stitch UI design tool, enabling anyone to create user-interface designs by describing them in natural language or using markdown.

It can also be used to copy the design of an existing web page — or “easily extract a design system from any URL,” as Google put it in a blog post describing the new feature.

The thinking behind the development is that users will often have a variety of ideas in the initial part of the design process. Businesses will now be able to see a visual representation of those ideas, whether they be generated by text, image or code.

Google has said that Stitch will also be paired with a new design agent that can reason across the entire project’s evolution. In addition, it has introduced an Agent manager that helps users to track their progress as well as allowing them to work on multiple ideas in parallel.

Maxwell Cooter

Maxwell began writing about technology in 1984, when mainframes ruled the world. Since then he has written for just about every business computing title in the UK, and for a few in the US, covering everything from Artificial intelligence to Zero-day exploits and all points in between. He has also been editor-in-chief of several award-winning titles, including Network Week, Techworld, and Cloud Pro, and a regular contributor to Whatsonstage.com. In his spare time he coaches a junior rugby team.

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