The canvas, projects and screens

How projects, screens, versions and the infinite canvas fit together.

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A UXMagic project on the canvas: three generated onboarding screens beside the agent chat panel listing the steps it took.
A project on the canvas — generated screens on the left, the agent’s plan on the right.

Projects

A project holds screens, a theme, uploaded assets and documents, its chat history, and its collaborators. Everything in a project shares one design system, which is what keeps twenty screens looking like one product.

Rule of thumb: one project per product or site. If you are designing two unrelated things, use two projects — otherwise a theme change intended for one will move the other.

Screens

A screen (sometimes called a frame) is one artboard on the canvas. Each screen has a name, a device size, HTML content, and a version history.

Screens can be:

  • generated by the AI from your prompt,
  • added empty and filled in later,
  • duplicated from an existing screen,
  • created as a responsive variant of another screen.

The canvas

The canvas is infinite and zoomable.

  • Pan — space + drag, or two-finger scroll.
  • Zoom — ⌘/Ctrl + scroll, or the zoom control.
  • Fit to screen — zooms out to show every screen in the project.
  • Focus mode — opens a single screen full-width for close work.

Screens are positioned from their centre point, so newly generated screens are laid out in a row beside the existing ones rather than stacking on top of them.

Versions

Every AI change to a screen creates a new version rather than overwriting the old one. You can step back through versions and restore any of them. See Versions and history.

Assets and documents

Each project has an asset library for images you upload or the AI generates, and a document area where you can attach a PRD, brief or spec that the AI will read before designing. See Design from a PRD or brief.

Trash

Deleted projects go to Trash and can be restored from the dashboard.

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