We're taking Lab offline today to refocus our efforts and build a more useful design tool. As part of this shift, we're rebranding Lab as Scribble.
While we're incredibly proud of Lab, we also believe it's too limited in its current form: the AI assistant only knows how to convert static designs into functional prototypes, not generate designs for you. As LLMs continue to progress, we see an opportunity for an even more powerful tool, where AI can design on the canvas as a collaborator.
That collaboration only works if the canvas is the project itself, not a preview of what gets built somewhere else. Most design tools today treat the canvas as a static representation that has to be translated back and forth into code, and we think that round-trip is the wrong fit for how most people want to build: if your design and your live site are two separate things that someone has to manually keep in sync, the canvas stops being useful.
Scribble will be the first canvas-based design tool where that loop is closed. The AI can iterate with you on the canvas as long as you want without anything going live, and when you're ready to ship, you publish from the same place you designed. You never have to see or manage the underlying code along the way; Scribble runs entirely in the cloud, and the canvas is the only surface you need.
We're eager to share more, and will do so over the summer through several newsletters. If you're interested in the future of Scribble, please sign up below: