What's new in Paper?
• Faster performance
• Half the memory use
• Opacity while using tokens
• WebMCP in the browser
• Agents can gen images
• Upgraded shaders
• Way more
Check out @harcourttt's walkthrough!
What would you like to see next?
The canvas? Undefeated.
Since Sketchpad in the 1960's, a 2D canvas has been the interface for creativity, spatial thinking, and dialing in the details.
We see designers, engineers, and sales teams using a canvas with agents more than ever.
Long live design tools!
we're hiring for three new dream jobs at @paper
- marketing
- sales development representative
- community
paper is growing like crazy (30% MoM, 34M series A from accel and ICONIQ), but we're still a super small team at 15 people, so there's massive opportunity to make impact
I keep getting asked how design teams with unlimited tokens actually work.
So I asked @arthurhilhorst to show me how the @Lovable design team ships new features and took a bunch of notes:
1. Can you ship?
> Being comfortable shipping was pretty much a prerequisite when Arthur first talked to @nadonomy about joining Lovable.
> Every designer at Lovable has to design in code and ships PRs.
> For example, Arthur literally shipped a PR in 10 minutes to fix a button issue.
2. 90% agentic exploration + 10% human touch
> Arthur uses Lovable + @paper MCP to explore a ton of design iterations.
> For further explorations he leaves comments on the Paper canvas like he would for a teammate and Lovable reads them and makes the changes itself. I think this is way more productive than prompting the agents all the changes you want for the next iteration.
> For the last mile Arthur manually tweaks the variations he likes in the Paper canvas. Old school style.
3. The taste you've acquired over the years is the moat
> It's super satisfying to prompt an agent and get 20 variants instantly on the canvas.
> But if you don't have the muscle memory to judge why something is good you'll just go with good enough.
> Get really good at the fundamentals like color, typography, visual rhythm and layout. And you only get good at those by grinding in the hours.
👀 Watch how the Lovable design team works: https://t.co/RcUatAEt6o
This is worth a read
Alex breaks down the craft that went into the text editing in Paper
There are so many tiny details and new things you can do, check it out:
New: rich text editing is live in Paper!
Designers have been asking for this one ✨
Plus Snapshot is now more accurate: copy/paste your live site as layers
Text uses html/css so what you design is what you ship
And it's perfect with agents: code in, code out
Sound on 🔊