Product announcements, AI design guides, and how we think about building a product in the AI era.
April 30, 2026
Mowgli builds prototypes. But the canvas — not the prototype — is where the real design work happens. Here's the technical and cognitive case for why, and what you can do on a canvas that a prototype simply can't give you.
April 27, 2026
Our biggest update yet — Mowgli now supports full clickable prototypes and real-time team collaboration.
April 22, 2026
Most AI design tools show landing pages and simple forms in their demos. Real products have dense data tables, role-based views, multi-step workflows, and hundreds of edge states. Here's what it actually takes to generate those well.
April 20, 2026
A screenshot of a competitor, a photo that captures a mood, a rough sketch on paper. Visual references communicate design intent better than text. Mowgli lets you bring them in at any stage — before you start, during identity selection, or after your app is generated.
April 15, 2026
Lorem ipsum is a design lie. It hides the most common source of layout failure, produces designs that generate useless feedback, and obscures the relationship between content and structure that determines whether a product works. Here's what changes when you design with real words.
April 14, 2026
Generating your product in the wrong theme and backtracking is expensive. Here's how to evaluate dark and light directions on your actual product before committing — and how to apply the right one across all your screens in one go.
March 31, 2026
A more powerful, intelligent Mowgli chat — moveable chatbox, image attachments, and a fully reworked agentic engine under the hood.
March 24, 2026
Figma has a private data model that doesn't map to how browsers render pages. Every design-to-code workflow built on top of it is working around that mismatch. Here's what the translation problem actually costs — and why code-native design is the structural fix.
March 19, 2026
Why Mowgli starts with a questionnaire — and why that's the fastest path to a product that holds together.
March 17, 2026
Onboarding is the most critical sequence in any product — and the one most AI design tools get wrong. Here's how to generate a complete onboarding flow, for every user type, in one pass.
March 10, 2026
Treating mobile as a phase that happens after desktop design is the most common source of layout debt in product development. Here's why responsiveness needs to be a design-time decision — and what changes when it is.
February 25, 2026
Vibe coding is fast until it isn't. The point where it breaks is almost always the same: no specification, no shared model of what you're building, and an AI that's been improvising from the start.
February 18, 2026
Fresh updates — style steering in the design proposal stage, a revamped version history panel, and a fast-forward option for the impatient.
February 11, 2026
The fastest way to build software is usually not to start building. The teams who ship well — and keep shipping — invest in understanding what they're making before they make it. Here's why that's not a contradiction.
February 11, 2026
You don't have to commit to a visual direction on day one. Start with structure, prove the flows, then bring your style in — gradually through chat, or all at once. Here's how the path works.
February 4, 2026
Vibe coding tools are fast but they break down fast too. The reason is almost always the same: no specification. Here's why a living PRD is the missing layer in AI-assisted development.
January 29, 2026
Most Figma-to-code tools handle individual frames. Mowgli imports full products — hundreds of frames, complex flows, variants, components — with pixel-perfect fidelity. Here's how we built the most capable Figma import pipeline in the industry, and why it matters.
January 28, 2026
We've been cooking — Figma import and export are here, plus the alpha of responsiveness and a wave of smaller improvements.