Now it’s possible to customise icons, choose BaseUI instead of Radix (which means it’ll be deprecated soon), choose different set of icons and different styling. So now you can configure the design system to your needs, which will definitely spark a wave of new cool libraries and products built to create awesome design with Shadcn.
PS Shadcn became the most popular frontend library in 2025.
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Stitch — a new AI design tool from Google, Shipmas
Google ships like they’re some indie-hackers. Stitch is of the tools from Google Labs, with it you can build really cool things with AI (using their latest Nano Banano model). Last week they’ve shipped UI prototyping features and heatmap simulation, while generating really decent designs fast.
It looks like 2026 will be transforming year for designers, as more quality tools appear.
Article: Cursor migrated from Sanity CMS to hosted markdown
It took $260 in tokens and hundreds of agents.
Markdown is gaining more popularity as AI benefits greatly when it has an access to all content, that is stored inside the repo. Now more companies considering this.
Video tutorial on designing apps with AI and templates
The author shows how he built a great modern website with AI. What makes it’s interesting is the process that author walks us through and his thinking about designing in general. Will be useful for anyone who ever built websites.
Mentions in this video are so great and useful:
Supahero — a collection of Hero sections for inspiration
Bentogrids — a collection of bento grid sections (think feature sections)
CtaGallery — a collection of buttons and call to action blocks
Mobbin — a collection of workflow screenshot from beautifully designed apps