Design tool evolution timeline and feature releases

New domain for Aura: aura.build. We changed to avoid confusion with another domain with similar name. We try our best to be accommodating to our friends.

You can now incorporate video and spline assets into specific elements, not just backgrounds. This allows for richer, more dynamic designs that engage your audience.

Add a personal touch with hue and blur customization for your backgrounds. This feature gives you the flexibility to create stunning visuals that perfectly match your vision.

We've resolved the issues where updating a design would unintentionally scroll back to the top or misplace labels. Enjoy a seamless editing experience without interruptions!

Introducing a duplicate button that allows you to instantly copy your current selection into a new element. Speed up your workflow and enhance your productivity effortlessly.

Animate your designs with stunning 3D Spline backgrounds, adding depth and a modern touch to your creations.

Now you can enhance your projects with video backgrounds by simply using a video URL, making your designs more dynamic.

Experience new gradient options with Radial and Conic gradients. Customize with presets and adjust angles to create the perfect look.

Easily access a variety of preset color palettes in Selection Colors, streamlining your design process and enhancing visual appeal.

Selecting an Unsplash image now automatically adapts to the appropriate retina resolution, saving you time and effort.

When changing images, the tool now remembers your last search state for Unsplash, allowing for a smoother browsing experience.

You can now effortlessly theme your generated designs with preset font pairings, colors, and images, just like Figma. This feature allows for quick replacements of any fonts, colors, or images, streamlining your design process.

Introducing new previews for desktop, tablet, and mobile in Preview Mode! This enhancement helps you visualize your designs across different devices, ensuring a consistent look and feel.

The new Play/Pause feature allows you to make edits without refreshing animations each time. This means you can iterate more quickly and efficiently, keeping your creative flow uninterrupted.

We've enhanced the Screen Capture feature with a resizing option for better sharing. Now you can easily adjust the size of your captures to fit your needs.

The release includes a new feature for broken image detection and replacement, ensuring that your designs remain polished and professional at all times.

We've improved Pro detection for the Export to Figma feature, now supporting Auto Layout. This ensures a smoother transition of your designs into Figma, making collaboration even easier.

Introducing the Edit Prompt feature, allowing you to swiftly iterate on specific design elements for more efficient workflows.

When your prompt output exceeds the limit, you can now easily Continue Generating the code, ensuring you never lose your creative flow.

Small previews now come with a Play button to showcase animations, enhancing your design presentation. This feature is off by default to optimize performance.

You can now reposition the Design Mode properties window, allowing for a more personalized and accessible workspace.

We've enhanced the prompting process for Create, Iterate, and Remix options, giving you better guidance and results.

The maximum image upload size has been increased from 1MB to 2MB, giving you more flexibility in your design assets.

Fixed the infinite scrolling issue for Chrome browsers, ensuring a smoother user experience.

The o3 model is now the default, enhancing your design process with superior vision and performance. Get ready to experience the future of design!

You can now effortlessly copy your Aura designs from the Editor's Export menu and paste them directly into Figma, saving you valuable time and enhancing your workflow!

Resolved the issue where clicking on 'Attach image or HTML' was unresponsive, ensuring a smoother and more reliable user experience.

New creations now come with improved default prompt engineering, providing clear instructions on fonts, styles, icons, and charts, making it easier to achieve your desired results.

Our improved preview feature now eliminates flashes during generation, especially for Chrome users, ensuring a seamless design experience.

The Icon Picker now displays color, size, and weight in real-time, with added backgrounds for light and dark icons, making it easier to customize your designs.

Discover our brand-new Icons Panel, giving you access to thousands of icons to easily replace and enhance your designs, bringing a fresh perspective to your creative process.

Effortlessly copy (Cmd + C) and paste (Cmd + V) design elements, allowing for a more fluid and intuitive editing experience.

Quickly duplicate elements with Cmd + D and delete them using cmd + backspace, giving you greater control over your design without hassle.

New sidebar button to disable chat history, maximizing your workspace for design and code modes, ensuring a distraction-free environment.

Pro users will benefit from improved Image to HTML conversion using our advanced o3 model, making it easier to create stunning web designs from images.

Never worry about mistakes again! Our new Undo/Redo feature allows you to easily revert changes and experiment freely in your designs.

Enhance your color choices with gradients now available in the color picker, allowing for more vibrant and visually appealing designs.

Expand your typography options with the addition of two new fonts, Instrument Serif and Playfair, perfect for creating unique and stylish text elements.

Transform your images into HTML code effortlessly, streamlining your workflow and enhancing your design capabilities.

Collaborate more effectively by attaching up to two HTML files directly within your design, making sharing and feedback easier than ever.

Easily click on the code to target specific sections for edits, streamlining your workflow and enhancing your visual reference.

Set breakpoints in your code to debug effectively and gain better control over the execution of your programs.

Quickly find any piece of code with the new search functionality (cmd + F), making navigation effortless.

Select all instances of a specific code snippet with a simple command (cmd + D), allowing for faster edits across your entire project.

Introducing a dedicated Transforms section with intuitive controls for Translate, Rotate, Scale, and Skew, allowing for precise manipulations of your design elements.

Enhance your designs with a variety of effects such as blur, backdrop filter, grayscale, and invert. Apply stunning visual effects with just a click!

Experience seamless editing with a contextual menu that intelligently follows the position of the selected element, providing quick access to relevant tools.

Edit Tailwind CSS code directly within the design interface, bridging the gap between visual design and code for a more integrated workflow.

Utilize our new Color Picker specifically designed for Tailwind colors, giving you precise control over your color palettes with ease.