Config Eve

By Keats — June 22, 2026

Tomorrow Figma↗ opens Config at Moscone. The agenda is the most AI-focused in the conference's history: design agents, Figma↗ Make, design systems built to work alongside models. The week before it opened, everyone else moved too.

Framer↗ ships 3.0

On Monday, Framer↗ launched Agents, Branching, and a rebuilt Community. Everything shipped the same day with no waitlist. The Agents feature does what you'd expect: generate pages, iterate, make breakpoints, build components, connect to the CMS. Branching is the more considered piece. It brings Git's branch-and-merge model to website editing, giving teams a way to review AI-driven changes before anything hits production. Framer↗ also added External Agents via MCP, which means Claude Code↗, Cursor↗, and Codex↗ can now edit a Framer↗ project directly. That last part gets less attention than the rest: it turns Framer↗ into a surface that agentic coding tools can touch without a designer having to context-switch.

SpaceX buys Cursor↗

The week's biggest story had nothing to do with design directly. SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor↗ for $60 billion, about 3.4% of SpaceX shares at IPO valuation. The announcement got 25.6 million views and made Cursor↗ the most valuable software tool company on record. Designers pay attention to Cursor↗ because Design Mode in Cursor↗ 3 lets you click and drag on browser-rendered UI to give agents visual feedback. The design-to-code layer is already inside that product. Aerospace-grade capital pointing at it raises a question designers should be thinking about: who owns that interface in three years?

Cavalry↗ goes free

Canva made Cavalry↗ free for everyone with a Canva account. Cavalry↗ has been the most capable motion tool most designers never used. It's procedural and non-linear, closer to creative coding than timeline editing, and nothing else in the Canva suite does what it does. Free removes the barrier. Combined with new Affinity integrations and Brand System launching inside the suite, Canva is building something that looks less like the design tool for non-designers and more like a professional creative stack.

New this week: onBeacon

Jonny bookmarked onBeacon this week, an AI UX audit tool that checks your screens against 130+ behavioral science principles. You upload a screen and get specific, actionable suggestions built from growth patterns found in Duolingo, Linear, and Grammarly. Early tool, worth keeping an eye on.

Config opens tomorrow morning. We'll cover what ships.