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Framer hits $2B, Webflow heads to Boston, and your codebase needs a DESIGN.md

Framer raised $100M at a $2B valuation, Webflow Conf opens tomorrow in Boston with App Gen and Component Gen expected, and DESIGN.md is quietly becoming the file your repo needs.

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Design Tools Are Learning to Talk Back

Framer added a reasoning toggle, Paper raised $34M and open-sourced its shader library, Subframe and Pencil talk to coding agents via MCP, and Glaze builds Mac apps from plain-language descriptions. The design tool stack is bifurcating — here is what that looks like right now.

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Jelly UI, Osmo, and Meng To’s three.js masterclass

This week: Osmo goes GA for GTM video teams, Jelly UI brings soft-body physics to native HTML forms, and Meng To open-sources a Three.js demo that Replit turned into a designathon.

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The Polishing Layer

The State of AI Design 2026 shows Claude overtaking ChatGPT among designers, and Figma shifting into a finishing role. Plus GlassKit UI for Meta's wearable display and UISqueezy on token drift.

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The Editable Output Bet

Paper's $34M raise leads a week where AI design tools converged on the same thesis: generate editable output, not images.

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Bring your own AI

Design tools are competing to be the best canvas for whatever AI you're already using. Framer adds external agent support, Pencil doubles down on its MCP model, and Paper opens its shader library.

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The canvas goes generative

Framer 3.0 ships agents on the canvas. Figma Config rolls out Code Layers and Motion. Paper Shaders goes open source. Three releases, one direction.

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Paper Shaders goes open source, Toolcraft arrives

Paper opens up their shader library, Pixel Point ships a starter kit for building your own design tools, and a few more things worth knowing about.

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