We made this into an interactive checklist so you can tick off the shows you’ve watched.
How many out of 100 have you seen?
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When @ESO_Solutions tested nearly every AI design tool, they ended up choosing Magic Patterns.
Designers, PMs, and engineers scored the tools on impact, confidence, and effort to adopt. The deciding factor? Magic Patterns was a valuable tool their entire team could actually use.
In this clip from @jayneil, ESO shares how they evaluated the options and why Magic Patterns was the right fit.
Opus 5.5 is now available in Magic Patterns.
In our internal evals, it matched Opus 5’s quality while using 33% fewer tokens.
That means your credits go further, giving you more room to explore ideas and refine your designs.
We had a great time @ValioCon!
Join everyone later for the official Sendoff Lunch + Happy Hour at 1:30pm, just down the street from the theater.
Flying Pig Pub & Kitchen 🍻
Address: 509 Mission Ave, Oceanside, CA 92054
We’re in town for San Diego Design Week!
We had a blast at @xdsandiego’s AI + prototyping event Monday night. Next up: our co-founder @alexdanilowicz joins the “Future of Product Design” panel at Valio Con later today and the "Systems, Prototypes, Patterns, and Products: Closing the Design-to-Dev Gap" panel at DDX on Thursday.
If you’re around this week, come say hi! 👋
Are you a builder in the Philadelphia area?
Join us September 22 at 6pm at Indy Hall for a free AI Builder meetup with fellow designers, PMs, and builders.
Come swap ideas, learn from other teams such as @try_headway and @FreedomMortgage, and meet people figuring out what’s next in product building. Pizza’s on us. 🍕
📍 Indy Hall, Philadelphia
🗓 September 22 · 6pm
🎟 Free to attend
RSVP: luma.com/2zmr433v
The best product tours don’t feel like product tours.
Our onboarding appears while first-time users are already waiting for their design to generate, helping them learn the product without adding another step to their workflow.
Happy Friday! You can now upload PDFs to update your designs.
Drop in a deck, spec, or doc and the agent uses it as first-class context for the next prompt.
Introducing Magic Patterns on Duo 👀
New screen? Already designing for it.
Use custom viewports to design for any screen, in any size. Even one that folds.
Ever feel overwhelmed by tech jargon? You're not alone.
In our recent best practices session, we simplified the world of MCPs/Plugins/Connectors among AI tools and uncovered how you can leverage Magic Patterns where you already work.
𝟮. 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗱𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲.
Any workspace admin can now grant a seat to a teammate, not just the admin who originally purchased the subscription.
𝟭. 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸.
Magic Patterns is now an official plugin in the ChatGPT and Codex plugin directory. Install it and Codex gets the Magic Patterns tools and skills.
Did you know you can reference anything from another Magic Patterns design just by pasting its link into your prompt?
Reuse a layout, component, or visual direction without explaining everything from scratch.
Magic Patterns is officially available as a plugin in ChatGPT and Codex!
Codex is great at turning a clear design into working code. But without a dedicated design workflow, it often starts building before you’ve figured out what the product should actually look like.
The Magic Patterns plugin lets you explore the UI visually first, then carry that design context directly into implementation.
With the plugin, you can:
✅ Generate and iterate on product designs
✅ Explore multiple UI directions before writing code
✅ Design with your existing components and brand
✅ Bring the finished design into Codex to build
Go from idea → design → working product without rebuilding the context at every step.
Install the Magic Patterns plugin: chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_a…
The modern 2026 product workflow: design a working prototype ➡️ build it in actual code ➡️ send PRs for engineering to polish and ship
Join our 30-minute webinar this Thursday, September 3rd, as we walk through the end-to-end workflow of how Magic Patterns complements your IDE of choice.
Sign up here: ordnl.link/s4lrXbH
Portland, you were a great time 🌲🍩
We spent last night at Magic Patterns Meetup - Portland meeting local builders, swapping ideas, and talking about what everyone is creating with AI.
Thanks to everyone who came out, grabbed some swag, and made our first Portland meetup one to remember.
Where should we go next?
Watch how @ToastTab cut prototype prep from weeks to days with Magic Patterns
The team already knew the restaurant experiences they wanted to test. The bottleneck was turning those ideas into realistic prototypes that looked like Toast and could hold up in customer research.
Magic Patterns "tremendously changes the way we design for restaurant and retail operators,” Aditi Thota, a Principal Product Designer, says.
What happens when a childhood obsession becomes part of your job?
RollerCoaster Tycoon is a classic computer game where you build and manage your own theme park. One of our engineers, @alexlee_, grew up playing it and recently recreated that experience inside Magic Patterns.
He tracked down the rides, rivers, paths, and scenery, then taught our AI agent how to use those building blocks to create complete theme parks.
Although a bit silly, it turned out to be a serious product learning for our engineering team about how to improve our MCP and design systems.
Now the design system is open for anyone to use for free. Build your own custom 3D world in Magic Patterns and show us what you create.
"this is REALLY f***** cool guys."
"This is great - I had it manually create these different states for me, so this should make things easier (and cleaner)."
Our latest Controls feature allows you to compare variants and tune details with the Controls panel and the community is ♥️ it.
Today we’re releasing Controls in Magic Patterns!
We noticed customers prompting in their own control bars, so now you can use controls to edit the dynamic properties of your design. For example, if you need to control different loading states or variants.
Get started by prompting our design agent to add Controls of the specific things you want to see.
Want to meet the local product community in Brisbane, Australia?
Join us Wednesday at Poppies Southbank for food/drinks on us at Magic Patterns Meetup - Brisbane: luma.com/0ahuwjy9
We are OBSESSED with all the easter eggs on our new careers page.
magicpatterns.com/careers
Magic Patterns is growing fast and hiring:
- Product Designer
- Head of Community / Product Evangelist
- Product Engineer
- Account Executives and more
See more of what the AI agent did in the chat thread
The chat thread in the editor now keeps a fuller log of what the agent did. You’ll see the files it writes while it works, so you can follow what changed.
Consolidate your workspace onto one subscription
You can move your workspace onto centralized billing yourself now. Whoever does it owns the single subscription that covers everyone in the workspace.
Export your slide decks to Figma
Slide decks now export to Figma. Copy your deck in Magic Patterns and paste it into Figma, the same way you already do with designs.
Why did @try_headway choose Magic Patterns for design sprints?
Their design system lives in it, no PRDs required, and powerful collaboration.
The Headway product team is one of the best we've worked with and they're hiring: headway.co/careers
One of our most useful features is also one that many people don’t know exists: Screens.
Figma made it easy to see an entire product laid out screen by screen. Interactive prototypes made it possible to experience how the product actually works.
Screens gives you both.
See every page and understand the full flow at a glance. Then double-click any screen to jump directly into that part of the interactive prototype.
New designs are now private by default
Designs are no longer public by default. To make a design viewable by anyone who wasn’t invited by email, publish it from the Publish tab in the Share panel and share the public URL.
We're excited to announce our official plugin with @Cursor_AI.
Type "/add-plugin magic-patterns" and you're all set.
You can then use Magic Patterns to prototype ideas, generate UI inspiration, upload local UI, and integrate designs into your codebase directly from Cursor's platform.
Install it today: cursor.com/marketplace/magic…
Have you tried our Magic Patterns API? It allows developers to plug Magic Patterns straight into their own tools and workflows to embed design generation within their own apps.
Same credits, one key, a lot more flexibility!
What a great run of Magic Patterns Meetups!
Next up:
8/6 Medellín, Colombia 🇨🇴
8/18 Brisbane, Australia 🇦🇺
8/27 Portland, Oregon 🇺🇸
9/22 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 🇺🇸
Coming soon:
- Orange County, California 🇺🇸
- Monterrey, Mexico 🇲🇽
A prototype is rarely the final step.
Someone still has to explain:
- Why this direction
- How the experience works
- What the team should do next
Now with our new feature Slide Decks, teams can create the prototype and the presentation around it in Magic Patterns, using the brand and design system they’ve already set up.