Prototyping in Canvas

Design without a design tool

You have an idea for a landing page. Or a client dashboard. Or an onboarding flow. Normally, you'd need a separate design tool, a designer on your team, or hours wrestling with unfamiliar software.

In Canvas, you can design visual interfaces using nothing but your own words. Describe what you want, and AI generates a working screen design in seconds — no design skills, no technical knowledge, no external tools needed.

Prototypes live on your Canvas boards

Prototypes aren't in a separate zone or a separate tool. They live on your Canvas boards, right alongside your other creative work.

This means a product launch board can have the landing page design on the left, the launch email copy in the middle, and the social posts on the right — all in the same visual space. You see how the pieces fit together. You catch inconsistencies. You work on everything without switching tools.

Describe it, see it instantly

Tell AI what you want in plain language:

"Create a landing page with a big headline at the top, a three-column section showing our three main features, and a sign-up form at the bottom."

AI reads your description and generates a complete visual screen design that appears right on the board. You can be as specific or as general as you like. A short description gives you a solid starting point. A detailed one gets closer to what you're picturing. Either way, you can keep refining it in the conversation.

You don't need to know anything about how interfaces are built. Just describe what you see in your mind.

Iterate in conversation

Once a design is on the board, you can keep working on it by talking:

"Make the headline shorter. Move the form above the features section. Change the call-to-action color to orange."

AI reads what's there, makes the changes, and the board updates immediately. You iterate by describing, not by clicking through tools.

Viewing designs full size

When you want to see a design as it would actually appear — not as a card on the board, but as a real full-size screen — you can switch to expanded view. The design fills the workspace so you can review it the way a user would experience it.

Toggle back to the board at any time to see everything in context alongside your other work.

A library of ready-to-use building blocks

Canvas includes a built-in Library of reusable components — common interface pieces that AI assembles when building your prototypes. Navigation bars, feature sections, forms, hero sections, pricing tables, dashboards, and more.

You can browse the Library to see what's available. The more you understand what's in the library, the better you can describe what you want — but you don't have to use it directly. AI uses it on your behalf.

Your Library also grows over time. Templates you create and assets you save become reusable resources for future boards.

Annotations: notes and feedback

When you're reviewing a design — or sharing it with a teammate — you can add sticky notes anywhere on the board. Attach them to specific designs, color-code them for different types of feedback, and keep the conversation visible alongside the work.

Status labels let you mark where each design is in the review process: in progress, under review, approved, or set aside. Between notes and labels, you can run a complete design review without leaving Canvas.

Flow connections: mapping the experience

A single screen doesn't tell the whole story. What happens when someone clicks "sign up"? Where do they go after submitting a form?

You can draw connectors between designs with labels like "on success," "on error," or "next step." These connections map the experience — turning a collection of individual screens into a complete picture of the journey you're designing.

No design skills required

This is worth saying directly: you don't need to know design. You don't need to understand layouts, spacing, or how interfaces are built. Just describe what you want like you'd explain it to a colleague.

Prototyping in Canvas is for the marketer who wants to show the developer what the landing page should look like. For the founder sketching out the product before anyone builds it. For the project manager who wants to show the team an idea instead of just describing it.

If you can write a sentence, you can design a screen.