# Alba > Alba is an AI design agent for Figma on the Mac. Describe a screen, paste a screenshot or sketch it on the canvas — Alba builds it in your Figma file with your design system, then checks every detail before it says done. Closed beta, free. Alba is a desktop app for the Mac, made by bey.agency. It is a design agent: it works in the Figma desktop app for the designer — opening files, building sections with the file's own design system, and measuring the result — rather than passing requests along through someone else's connector. Website: https://alba.ai2.design. Maker on X: https://x.com/berkayerdinc_. ## Key facts - Category: AI design agent for Figma (design tool, macOS app). - Works in: the Figma desktop app, in your own file. - Input: words, a screenshot or picture, a rough sketch on the canvas, or a selection to revise. - Output: finished, editable Figma sections built from your design system's tokens and components. - Checks its own work before it says done: contrast (WCAG AA), overflow, text styles, overlaps, requested sizes. - Every run can be undone in one step; it asks before deleting anything you made. - Requirements: a Mac and Figma's desktop app. - Availability: closed beta, inviting designers from the waitlist in small groups. - Price: the closed beta is free; everyone who joins keeps free access when pricing arrives. - How to join: the waitlist at https://alba.ai2.design (name and email). ## What Alba does - **Build from words, a screenshot or a sketch** (Available in the beta): Describe a section, paste any interface, or draw boxes on the canvas and select them — Alba builds a finished section in your Figma file. - **Your design system, installed** (Available in the beta): Bring a system from a Figma file, a token file or a live page, or pick a well-known free one; Alba builds with its tokens and components, never a guessed colour. - **Done means checked** (Available in the beta): Before it says done, Alba measures its own work in Figma — contrast, overflow, text styles, overlaps and the sizes you asked for — and fixes what fails or tells you. - **Revise by selection** (Available in the beta): Select a frame and say what should change; Alba edits only what you pointed at. - **Every step visible, every run undoable** (Available in the beta): Each step appears as it happens, and one click takes the whole run back. - **It uses Figma for you** (Available in the beta): Alba opens new files and works through Figma’s own menus to get itself ready. - **Prototype and motion** (Available in the beta): Interactions and keyframe motion on Figma’s own timeline, exported as a clip. - **The generator** (Available in the beta): Build a design system of your own for a website, dashboard, iOS or Android — colour, tokens, contrast (WCAG 2), type, spacing, grid, elevation — and import it into Figma as variables and styles. - **Icons, notes and your language** (Available in the beta): Ask for an icon by name; tell Alba once how you work; write in any language and Alba answers in yours. - **In the AI assistant you already use** (Available in the beta): Use Alba from the AI assistant you work with, on the plan you already have. - **Voice** (Coming soon): Say “Hey Alba” and describe the change. - **Variants swapped, your team’s library** (Coming soon): Switch a component’s variant by asking; build with your team’s published components and variables. ## Questions ### What is Alba? An AI design agent for Figma. Describe what you need in words, a screenshot or a sketch, and Alba builds it in your file with your design system — then checks the result before it says done. ### How is Alba different from other AI tools for Figma? Most of them pass your words to Figma through a connector and leave the rest to you. Alba does the work itself: it goes straight into your file, uses Figma for you, checks what it made before it says done, and can take a whole run back in one step. ### Can I use it today? Alba is in a closed beta. We are inviting designers from the waitlist in small groups, so every person who joins gets our full attention. ### How do I get an invite? Join the waitlist with your name and email. When your turn comes, your invite arrives by email with everything you need to start. ### What do I need? A Mac and Figma’s desktop app. Your invite walks you through the rest, step by step. ### Is my work safe? Alba changes only what you ask for, asks before deleting anything you made, and every run can be undone in one step. ### Which design systems work? Your own, straight from your Figma file, and well-known free systems ready to install. More arrive during the beta. ### What does it cost? The closed beta is free, and everyone who joins it keeps free access when pricing arrives. ## Release notes (preview builds) ### Preview 6 — Ready on a new Mac (September 28, 2026) Alba now asks your Mac for what it needs by itself, and opens Figma files for you — so a first start is a few clicks, not a hunt through settings. New: - Settings › Permissions asks macOS for you: one button for each permission, and the right page of System Settings when you need it. - Start from a sentence in a brand-new Figma design file. Alba opens it and gets itself ready there. Improved: - If Alba stopped running in your Figma file, it starts again in the right file and carries on with your request. - A permission you give Alba now reaches every part of Alba that works in Figma. Fixed: - Screen Recording asks properly the first time, instead of sending you to System Settings. ### Preview 5 — Figma, used for you (September 27, 2026) Alba can now use Figma the way you do — opening files and working through its menus — and shows you what it is doing while it does. New: - Choose “New Figma Design file” in the composer and your request is built in a fresh file. - While Alba works in Figma’s own interface, a small panel shows each thing it does. Improved: - Alba steps back while you use Figma yourself, and brings Figma forward only when it needs to. - A run in progress carries on if Alba’s connection to Figma restarts. Fixed: - A layer that cannot be found is asked about once, not again and again. - A run that does not finish still shows what it did and why it stopped. ### Preview 4 — Settings, notes and a safer start (September 26, 2026) Tell Alba how you work, decide how often it asks, and let a guided first run connect it to Figma. New: - Notes for Alba: say once how you work — your grid, your naming, your rules — and your notes go with every message. - Settings › Safety: choose how often Alba checks with you before it acts. - Settings for your profile, design defaults, notifications and appearance. - A guided first run connects Alba to Figma, step by step. Improved: - Messages carry what you point at: a pasted picture, your selection in Figma and the language you write in. - New sections land in the free space nearest your work, and the canvas follows as Alba builds. - An inbox in the top bar collects what Alba needs from you. Fixed: - A run that stops early keeps its reply and its save point. ### Preview 3 — Undo a whole run (September 25, 2026) Every run now saves a point before it changes your file, so one click takes it all back. New: - Revert on any answer takes the whole run back to where your file was. - Choose how hard Alba thinks for each message: Low, Medium, High or Max. - Report any answer — a wrong “done” included — with one button. Problems come with a short code you can share. Improved: - Alba answers in the language you write in. - Nothing is called done until what Alba made has been measured in your file. - A question gets a plain answer, not a report. Fixed: - Reverting a run now also removes the styles it added. ### Preview 2 — A design system of your own (September 24, 2026) The generator arrives: build a system for your product, check its contrast and bring it into Figma in one step. New: - Start a system for a website, a dashboard, iOS or Android, then tune colour, light and dark tokens, type, spacing, grid and elevation. - Every colour pair is measured against WCAG 2 while you tune it. - Import to Figma writes your system as variables and styles, and updates them in place the next time. - Turn an existing Figma file into a system, with a screen to check how each part maps. - Browse every component and variant of a system, and place them in your file. Improved: - Ask for an icon by name and Alba finds it and places it at the right size. ### Preview 1 — The first window (September 22, 2026) Alba becomes a Mac app: one conversation per task, each working in its own Figma file. New: - A library of design systems, ready to install into your file. - A new conversation opens on its own screen, with ideas to start from. - Make it move: keyframe motion on Figma’s own timeline, exported as a clip. Improved: - Components keep their states — hover, pressed, disabled — when Alba builds them in your file.