Stitch + Figma: How the bundle works, which is already used by all normal teams

## Why it's not a tool war

Stitch launched in mid-2025 as a curious toy. On March 18, 2026, an update was released that rewrote the rules: infinite canvas, voice control, Design Agent with the memory of the entire project, MCP server and – most importantly – normal export to Figma with saved layers. The following day, Figma shares fell 8.8 percent. The market got scared. The practitioners were happy. Stitch captures phase 0→1: compresses hours into minutes during the research phase. Figma has a phase of 1→100: here products are brought to the final. It's not duplication - it's a division of labor that the design industry has been missing for a decade. And on May 20, a streaming agent and multiplayer were added to this on Google I/O, and the bundle became even denser.

## How workflow works in practice

This is what it looks like in real projects. Step 1 – Research at Stitch (20–30 minutes) Open stitch.withgoogle.com. Gmail is the only thing you need. No installation, no credit card. Give the task: not “do landing”, but a specific prompt of four parts – context, structure, content, style. For example: Context: SaaS product for task management, audience – solo developers Structure: hero, three features, pricing, footer Content: minimalist, without stock illustrations Style: like Linear, dark background, emphasis on typography One vague prompt is a 6/10 result. Prompt with four parameters - 9/10 the first time. Stitch generates 5 options simultaneously. Agent Manager captures the entire history of the project – you can go back to any solution, explore parallel directions without losing context. Since the May update, the agent streams components directly onto the canvas while you write or talk - you can stop the generation halfway if the direction goes wrong, and redirect the agent without waiting for the final result. If you want Stitch to stick to your design system, put it in the DESIGN.md project. By default, Stitch creates DESIGN.md for each project; you can customize it to your brand or give Stitch the URL of an existing site – it will extract the system itself. After that, each generated screen follows your tokens automatically. Step 2 – Export to Figma (5 minutes) Designs from Stitch are exported to Figma with preserved layers and components through an official community plugin. It's not a flat screenshot to redraw. Insert into Figma - layers are named, components are grouped, Auto Layout is saved. It's clean enough to start working with it directly. This fundamentally distinguishes Stitch from other AI-generators that produce a picture. There is already a structure at the entrance to Figma. Step 3 – Polishing in Figma (as much as you need) Figma does what Stitch does not: pixel accuracy, responsive behavior, a full-fledged design system with components and tokens, comments, branches, dev-handoff. Figma’s plug-in ecosystem — more than 2,000 tools — is years of accumulated infrastructure that AI tools won’t be able to replicate quickly. Figma Make is the AI layer inside Figma based on Claude Sonnet 4. It’s not Stitch: Make generates from scratch, it iterates within the existing system. “Add a dark theme”, “make a mobile option”, “replace all buttons with outlined” – Make does this in the context of your real project, not an abstract canvas. Step 4 - Transfer to code Two ways: Export code from Stitch – HTML/CSS + Tailwind. Code from Stitch is a great starting point: LLM agents convert this HTML well to React, Angular, Vue, Flutter or SwiftUI. Take export, throw in Cursor or Claude Code with a reference screenshot - you get the right framework. Through MCP, the Stitch MCP server connects directly to Claude Code and Cursor, breaking the design-to-code pipeline in one step. The design and code are synchronized without manual copying.

## What did May I/O 2026 give

The March update solved the speed problem. May is a teamwork problem. Until May 20, Stitch was a one-man tool. This was the main argument in favor of Figma for any team more than one designer. I/O 2026 added simultaneous multiplayer editing — Google directly compares this to collaboration in Google Docs. And it's all free, versus $15 for Figma. There is also export to Google Antigravity for backend integration and direct depot through Netlify directly from the Stitch interface. Recommended workflow among practitioners working with both tools: research in Stitch, finalize in Figma, collect in Antigravity.

## Honest map: where to use what

TaskInstrumentFirst concepts, 5-10 options for the morningStitchVoice control of the canvasStitchParallel study of directionsStitch + Agent ManagerDesign system, components, tokensFigmaIterations within the existing projectFigma MakePixel polishFigmaDev-handoffFigma Dev ModeDesign → code without manual conversionStitch MCP + Cursor/Cde CodeDeploy directly from the design toolStitch + Netlify

## Who is this ligament suitable and who is not

Suitable:

Solo developers and small teams who want to hiss fast Product teams without dedicated designers Designers tired of spending the first two days on wireframes

Not suitable:

Large design teams with multi-year libraries in Figma – migration is pointless Projects with strict accessibility requirements – Stitch does not give the right level of control at the start Corporate teams with established design system governance

Figma is too deeply embedded in workflow design teams—component libraries, design systems, dev handoff, plug-in ecosystems—to be supplanted by one AI tool. But small teams and solo builders are already shifting toward AI-native tools like Stitch.

## Conclusion: There is no war, there is a pipeline

Stitch is Monday morning: the brief has arrived, by lunchtime there are three concepts with code. Figma is the rest of the week: from the best concept grows the product. Make speeds up iterations inside. MCP removes manual handoff between design and code. The overall time saving compared to traditional workflow is 60-75%. Not because the tools are smart, but because everyone does their own thing and doesn't interfere with the other. https://stitch.withgoogle.com is free, 350 generations per month, without installation.