Overall, I feel like AI has made the process messier, but also more fluid. I remember sometimes getting stuck in thinking how to picture something. Now I just start and bounce between sketches, renders and prompts, continuing until something clicks.
I have a @framer file where I prep cover images for updates. There's never been a linear process in making those, and with AI it got even more fluid. Sometimes the idea sparks from an AI generation, then I continue it in blender until it feels right. Other times it's the opposite.
The Auto Translate cover followed the reverse process. Started from a rough 3D render, then used @midjourney to explore some variants with particles before refining the final composition with text.
We heard your feedback on the Basic plan, so we've upgraded it. Same price, more room to build.
Basic site plans are now upgraded:
⚡️ 50GB of bandwidth (up from 10GB)
🗄️ 2 CMS collections (up from 1)
Honestly it just feels easier to keep momentum now. Less time managing tickets, less github cleanups, more time actually designing and building stuff. I just wish we did it earlier.
My team at @framer moved from github issues to a super simple @notion board a few months ago and honestly it made everything feel 10x lighter. Less overhead, less friction, faster shipping.
The AI in Notion has been a whole lot more useful than I expected too. Pulling context from random old docs or buried Slack threads and turning all that into a solid first pass for a feature spec saves a ton of time.
The interesting thing about product design is that users rarely notice when you add complexity.
But they immediately feel when you remove friction.
The best UIs aren’t the ones with the most features. They’re the ones that make you hesitate the least.
We recently removed the slide in animation on the CMS side panel in Framer.
It looked nice, but it made the product feel slower.
Sometimes product work is acknowledging when “nice” gets in the way.
One thing we removed that didn’t work out: plugins in the CMS.
The community immediately let us know it was the wrong tradeoff, so we brought them back in a much better way.
Sometimes simplification means removing. Sometimes it means integrating better.
https://t.co/8R7uZRFQpl
Plugins are back in the @framer CMS, now with a dedicated panel that makes them easier to find and use. More refinements based on your feedback are coming soon 🧡
The @framer CMS 3.0 didn’t start as a roadmap item, it started as an internal hackathon project. Wanted to explore editing the CMS table directly, and @jonastreub jumped on it right away. The kind of excitement you recognize instantly, not loud, just deeply focused and real.
The CMS 3.0 release is far from perfect, there’s plenty to improve, still. But it’s also packed with these tiny details. Shaped by engineers like @jonastreub who notice what others ignore, and care enough to fix it anyway.