Roadmap

Where Design Relay is headed.

What's available now, what I'm actively working on, and what's coming next.

Available now

Bring your real designs in

Copy designs from Figma into Design Relay as editable layers — including frames, text, Auto Layout, components, colors, effects, and other design properties.

When you're ready, copy your work back to Figma without flattening it into an image.

Design with AI in context

Discuss the design right beside the canvas using Claude or ChatGPT.

Agents can understand the design you're looking at, the selected elements, your project context, and the decisions you've already made — instead of starting from scratch with every prompt.

Keep the context that matters

Turn important requirements, decisions, constraints, and explorations into Project Memory.

Attach source documents or connect Notion so your design conversations stay grounded in the actual product context.

Explore ideas without disrupting your work

Ask AI to explore alternative directions using a copy of your design, keeping the original intact.

You can also generate quick HTML explorations, preview different directions, and turn the ones you like into real canvas designs.

Build reusable design systems

Create components, variables, token collections, and modes.

Publish components to a project library so they can be reused across design files.

Connect design and code

Link a local Git repository so AI can understand both your designs and the product codebase.

External AI agents can also connect through MCP to read live Design Relay context and work with the canvas.

Work locally

Design Relay projects live as real folders on your computer, keeping your project files and context close to the work.

IN PROGRESS

More AI agents

Use Cursor alongside Claude and ChatGPT, with better continuity between agent sessions.

Better design systems

Publish tokens alongside components in project libraries, create and apply effect styles, and navigate large variable collections more easily.

Connect components to code

Link design-system components on the canvas to their corresponding components and exports in your codebase.

A smoother Figma workflow

Paste designs directly into the selected frame or Auto Layout and automatically fit designs into view when opening files.

Coming next

Deeper Figma round-trip

Carry variables, token bindings, and shared styles between Figma and Design Relay with greater fidelity.

For workflows that need more than the clipboard can provide, we're exploring a deeper Figma bridge.

Stronger design ↔ code connections

Make component relationships durable enough to survive renames, file moves, and codebase refactors.

More powerful token management

Support richer nested token structures and larger design-system hierarchies.

Collaboration

Move from local projects to shared projects with authentication and multi-user collaboration.