Design tooling has split into two camps over the last year or so. On one side are the manual editors I’ve always lived in – Figma, Affinity, Krita, Photopea, Penpot, etc. On the other are the prompt-first generators, which two years ago I would have written off as a gimmick, but they’ve proven me wrong. There’s serious money behind them now, the tools genuinely seem to understand UI conventions, and the more time I spend with them the less obvious it is where the line between design tool and AI generator actually is.