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Google Stitch ā A Designer's Honest Take (Part 2/2)
Last time I covered what works. Now the honest part. š
ā The Gaps
UI output quality isn't groundbreaking
Other platforms aren't far behind, and their outputs are more immediately usable beyond just visuals. Stitch only generates UI, the HTML/CSS export exists, but it's basic and not production-ready.
So who is this actually for?
Stitch isn't trying to replace designers, and it's not quite ready to hand developers production code either. It sits in a sweet spot: rapid ideation with a real design system behind it.
If you're a freelance designer, this shaves hours off early-stage concepting and client presentations. If you're a developer hoping to skip the design phase entirely ā not yet.
Threat? No.
Tool? Yes, if you know where to use it.
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Last week a client asked me to redesign a section of their website. Again.
The same one we'd already designed, got approved, built, and shipped. They had new ideas, which is fine sincenew ideas are part of the process. But the design phase was over and we were in final QA.
So I wrote the most boring, important email of the week: "This was already approved in design. Going back into additional design will need to be a separate scope."
Scope doesn't usually blow up in one big moment. It leaks. A "quick tweak" here, a "small change" there, and suddenly you're redesigning something that was done three weeks ago.
The unsexy version of protecting your work isn't firing a client. It's sending a calm, clear email on a Friday morning that says: this is where this phase ends.
Continue in the comments ā
Couldn't agree more! There is always a bit of flexibility, however setting clear boundaries is key to prevent this leaks into turning to a flood haha
For the Mobbin x Contra challenge, I used Mobbin as a research tool to study high-quality e-commerce flows and product page patterns.
Focused on understanding what actually works:
ā structure and hierarchy
ā spacing and readability
ā how minimal design supports conversion
Then translated those insights into an original e-commerce template, built in Framer and connected with Frameship to simulate a real product setup.
This is the current version:
https://nocturn.framer.website/
Still a work in progress, but I wanted to share the direction early and document the process.
The goal is to create something that feels like a real product, not just visually clean, but structured, usable, and ready to scale.
Would love your thoughts:
What feels right? What feels off? What would you improve?
#MOBBINXCONTRA2026
Dark, monochromatic vibe certainly matches the mono black products, very cohesive look & feel with great UX & Frameship functions! š
Forget Figma, AI is the new Design tool
When I joined Booking.com back in 2019, coding wasnāt a nice-to-have for UX designers, it was required. You simply couldnāt get hired at Booking.com without it. At the time, that felt like an outlier, almost extreme.
Six years later, itās becoming the norm. Companies like Linear, Vercel, Cursor, and XAi have been quietly rewriting the designer job description and hiring ādesign engineersā. They want designers who can build and ship, not just push pixels.
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