What is new in uxdeck

Request a feature in your own words, and take a practice brief when you want one.

• ImprovedTyping in a big file is no longer sluggish: on a crowded page a keystroke used to take most of a second to appear, and now it is immediate.
• ImprovedPanning and zooming a crowded page is smooth again, and the layers list only draws the rows you can see, so a file with thousands of layers opens and scrolls like a small one.
• ImprovedThe coach, the checklist and the screen-edge warning now share one reading of your page instead of each taking their own, so edits land faster on large files.
• ImprovedDesigning with the agent is much quicker on long builds: it no longer re-checks the whole page after every batch of changes.
• NewUse the fonts installed on your own computer: open the Fonts picker and choose “Use the fonts on this computer”. They are searchable alongside the web fonts and marked so you know which is which. Chrome and Edge only, and the picker says what a local font means for anyone else opening your file.
• NewInstall a font while the canvas is open and it says so when you come back, by name.
• ImprovedThe audit groups repeats: one rule with twenty examples reads as one finding, not twenty.
• ImprovedThe audit that ships with an export now looks like uxdeck: paper and ink in light and dark, the violet accent, findings split into what was measured and what is a judgement call, and a line saying where it came from.
• NewA prototype exports as a site: every screen becomes its own page, and a link between frames becomes a link between those pages, so it clicks through like a real product.
• ImprovedScrollwork now ships as js/scrollwork.js in the export, shared by every screen, with each screen carrying only its own motion.
• NewDownload the site: a folder you can host, with every page as a real document, images and fonts beside them, and audit.html listing what the coach measured, each line citing its source. No build step, nothing fetched from anywhere else.
• FixedThe export now matches the canvas layer for layer: every layer on a real page lands within a pixel and a half of where it was designed. Layers in auto layout keep the size you gave them instead of being squeezed, and an auto layout box with no height hugs its content, as it does when you add auto layout by hand.
• FixedAn auto layout box with no height set now grows with what is inside it instead of squeezing it, on the canvas and in the export. Long headings no longer print over the paragraph beneath them.
• NewExport as a picture: PNG at 1×, 2× or 3×, or SVG. Export what you have selected, or the whole page when nothing is, from the Export menu, the right-click menu or Settings. The menu says which it will be.
• ImprovedThe panels are simpler: the left rail is File, Assets and Agent, and the right rail is Design, Prototype and Review. Review holds Findings, Checklist and Reading together, so the page a finding cites now opens right under it.
• ImprovedInside Review, Findings, Checklist and Reading read as parts of that tab rather than a second row of tabs.
• ImprovedReading an article widens the panel while you read, and gives the width back when you leave.
• NewAssets, in the left rail: every component in the file, with search. Name one Button / Primary and it files itself under a Button folder. Double-click a row to find it on the canvas, or press + to drop an instance beside it.
• NewSwap an instance for another component in the same folder, straight from the panel.
• NewComponents: make any layer a component (⌥⌘K), add instances, and every change to the component reaches them. Anything you change on an instance stays on that instance, with Reset and Detach in the panel.
• NewA screen tells you when something hangs off its edge: a red count on its title bar, and clicking it selects what escaped.
• NewStretch, in auto layout: every child fills the cross axis, so cards in a row share a height.
• ImprovedAgents can now paint gradients and shadows, and hide a layer, which was only possible by hand before.
• ImprovedThe layers list shows the name you gave a text layer instead of its first words, so three screens of the same design no longer read the same.
• NewA new breakpoint now fits itself to its width: rows that no longer fit narrow or stack, padding comes in, headlines scale down, and nothing hangs off the edge. Body text is left alone, and Reset still puts any of it back.
• NewFit to this width, in a screen’s + menu, redoes that fit whenever you want it.
• FixedColours an agent gives to a section now show on the canvas. Before, a page designed by Claude Code or Cursor could come out white, with the colours stored but never painted.
• ImprovedThe coach remembers when you want it to speak: choose Hybrid or On ask once and it stays that way, in every file, after a reload.
• NewSettings, Preferences now has a Coach section with the same choice, and a way to let muted rules speak again.
• ImprovedPractice briefs moved to Home: a Practice card offers them, and taking one opens a new file with the brief attached, ready to grade in the Coach tab.
• ImprovedA new file no longer opens with a question. The canvas is just there, and the coach still reads over your shoulder.
• ImprovedA brief now belongs to its file, so it is still there after a reload.
• NewRequest a feature sits in Home’s sidebar under Changelog: write what you wish the canvas could do, leave your email if you want a reply, and it comes straight to us. No account needed.
• NewWhat ships from a request shows up here, in What’s new.

Present shows each screen in a browser window, a phone or a tablet, on a black background.

• NewDesktop screens present in a browser window, and phone and tablet screens in the device their size matches: iPhone, iPhone SE, Android or iPad.
• NewChoose the mockup for a page, or none, and the colour behind it, in the Design panel with nothing selected.
• ImprovedPresent now shows on black, and the device scales to fit your window.

Name things the designer’s way or the developer’s, see the code as you design, and ship pages that are accessible, tokenised and responsive.

• NewDesigner or Developer names: the panels can say Flexbox, gap and overflow: clip, and Designer names show the CSS when you hover a section.
• NewA Code section shows the CSS, HTML or Tailwind of what you select, live as you design, and right-click copies a layer as CSS.
• NewAccessibility for every layer: make a text a heading, a group a navigation or a list, a button a link, and give images alt text or mark them decorative.
• NewAdvice on headings, missing names and links, and the Checklist tab now reads your headings and your buttons’ names.
• NewTokens: name your colours, spacing, radii and font sizes, bind layers to them, and change a token to update every layer that uses it.
• NewExports write tokens as CSS variables, in HTML and in Tailwind.
• NewResponsive breakpoints stay linked: edits on the main frame flow to Tablet or Phone unless you change them there, with Reset and Unlink.
• NewA page with breakpoints exports as one responsive page, and Preview switches between its sizes.
• NewScrollwork on its own: download the motion engine from Settings and use it on any website.
• ImprovedThe coach’s spacing scale accepts the spacing tokens you define.
• FixedEdits made just before reloading or closing the page are no longer lost.
• FixedWidth and height fields no longer overlap on a narrow panel.

Make text appear, images drift, sections hold and buttons respond, all from the Prototype tab, played by Scrollwork in Preview and your export.

• NewScrollwork, the canvas’s own motion engine, plays everything below in Preview and in your export.
• NewGive any layer an entrance as it scrolls into view, with fade, slide, mask, blur, scale or your own starting point.
• NewText can appear line by line, word by word or letter by letter.
• NewParallax and scroll effects: layers drift, zoom, fade, blur or rotate as the page scrolls.
• NewPin a section so it holds its place while the page scrolls, and play other layers across the hold.
• NewTimelines with steps: a layer can pass through several states as it appears or as the page scrolls.
• NewInteractions: add a row, pick a trigger (click, hover or press) and an action (navigate, change, back, scroll to or open a link).
• NewEach interaction can wait, animate or happen instantly, with ready-made curves or your own, drawn and previewed as you shape it.
• NewHover and press motion: layers lift on hover, sink when pressed or flip between two states, with the keyboard too.
• NewThe agent can add and change motion for you.
• NewSmooth scrolling for a whole frame.
• NewOne handle for every connection: drag it onto another frame to go there on click, or onto a layer to start motion when that layer comes into view.
• ImprovedLinks and motion live together in the Prototype tab, and links between frames are drawn on the canvas.
• NewA scroll bar beside the frame shows your design at any scroll position, right on the canvas.
• NewPreview plays your motion on a real screen height, with Replay and a Reduce motion switch.
• NewHTML and Tailwind exports include the motion, with no extra library, and respect reduced motion.
• NewAdvice under the controls when motion may slow reading or cause discomfort.
• ImprovedThe Preview bar stays on one line and never covers the screen.

A new top bar, Settings, breakpoints for your screens, reading in the sidebar, checks that update as you design, and smarter number fields.

• NewA top bar with a searchable main menu, your file name, Preview, Invite and Export.
• NewSettings for your file and your account: sharing, export, preferences, usage, plans and shortcuts.
• NewEach screen has a bar with Preview, its width, and a button to add Desktop, Laptop, Tablet or a custom width.
• NewGlossary terms, lessons and checklists now open right in the sidebar, even offline.
• NewChecks tick themselves as you fix things, with a badge and a note when something newly passes.
• NewA Fonts picker with search and categories. Hover a font or a weight to see it on your text before choosing.
• NewRight-click menus on both sidebars, with rename, duplicate, reorder and delete for pages.
• NewDelete a project from Home.
• NewA notice when a new version is ready, and when you lose your connection.
• NewWhat’s new and a full changelog, at the bottom of Home.
• ImprovedA lighter floating toolbar: Move, Hand, the Coach, Fix my design, Comment, the theme, zoom and Upgrade. Shapes and drawing tools now live in the top bar’s Insert menu, and every shortcut still works.
• NewFix my design, on the toolbar: the agent fixes what the coach found on your screen.
• NewType sums in number fields, like 8*2 or (400-10)/2, and get the result.
• NewFont size, line height and letter spacing in the unit you think in: px, rem, em or %.
• ImprovedA zoom menu on the toolbar: zoom in and out, fit, selection, 50%, 100% and 200%.
• ImprovedZoom to fit now centres your screens in the space you can actually see.
• ImprovedProfile and Usage in Settings offer Sign in when you are signed out.
• FixedComment pins and collaborators’ cursors now land exactly where you point.
• FixedA file opens with its screens clear of the toolbar and the side panels.
• FixedSizes in the Design panel stay correct while the canvas zooms.
• FixedTooltips no longer stay on screen after closing a menu.
• FixedThe Fonts search field and the plans on tablets display at full size.
• FixedMoving quickly between fields in the Design panel no longer stops your changes from saving.

A thorough review of sharing, the agent and the editor, with every issue it found fixed.

• ImprovedEdits made just before switching tabs, reloading or going offline are no longer lost.
• ImprovedVery large files share smoothly, and a change too big to share tells you why.
• ImprovedUndo only takes back your own changes, never a collaborator’s.
• ImprovedA better version from the agent can be stopped, waits while you look at another page, and keeps your prototype links working.
• ImprovedStart a comment from the keyboard, and typed comments are never thrown away without asking.
• ImprovedDialogs close one at a time with Escape and return you to where you were.
• FixedImages pasted as SVG or BMP now show for everyone in a shared file.
• FixedA file closed and reopened in the same session saves its changes again.
• FixedA broken link no longer leaves the app blank.

Describe a screen or a change and the agent builds it on your canvas, checked by the coach.

• NewAn Agent tab in the sidebar: ask for a screen or a change and watch it appear on your canvas.
• NewShow me a better version: for a coach finding, the agent builds an improved copy of your screen next to it, with the guideline behind it.
• NewEvery change the agent makes is one undo step, and the coach checks it straight away.
• ImprovedThe better version unlocks after you try a fix yourself, so you learn before you see the answer.

Share a file with a link, see each other live, and leave comments on the design.

• NewShare a file with a link. Everyone with it designs in the same file, live.
• NewSee who is here, where their cursor is and what they have selected.
• NewComments pinned to layers, with replies, edits and resolve.
• NewSign in with Google, GitHub or an email link.
• NewTurn a link off or reset it at any time.
• NewImages in shared files are stored safely for everyone.