The Framer Workshop Update: How 2025’s New Features Are Revolutionizing How I Design Websites

As a professional Framer designer, I couldn’t be more excited about the latest Framer Workshop update. This 2025 release is packed with major enhancements that fundamentally change how to design websites with Framer. In this post, I’ll walk you through the biggest new features – from AI-powered design assistants to integrated analytics – and share why they’re such a game-changer for my workflow. Consider this an insider’s take on what’s new, why it matters, and how the design community (myself included) is reacting.

Wireframer: AI-Generated Layouts in Seconds

Imagine starting a web project without the dreaded blank canvas. Wireframer is Framer’s new smart layout assistant that lets me generate an entire page structure just by typing a prompt. It creates “clear, purpose-built layouts that focus on structure, not style”, giving me a responsive starting point that I can fully customize. Generation is blazing fast – in a few seconds I have a complete wireframe with sections and placeholder content, ready to tweak. This means I can move fast while still having full control over the aesthetics and details.

Using Wireframer feels a bit like magic. I might tell it “I need a startup landing page with a hero, features grid, and pricing section”, and it will produce a well-organized layout as a starting point. The output is responsive, minimal, and ready to customize – no messy, fixed templates. I can then jump into the canvas to refine the design, adjust styling, and add my brand’s personality. For common pages like landing pages, about pages, or portfolios, Wireframer is a huge time-saver. It essentially handles the rough drafting of the layout so I can focus on creative polish. Making my first version of a page has “never been easier” – a process that used to take hours of manual work now takes minutes.

Workshop: AI-Powered Component Builder with “Vibe-Coding”

Framer’s new Workshop AI assistant can generate custom, on-brand components just from a text description – empowering designers to build advanced functionality without writing code.

If Wireframer jumpstarts your layouts, Workshop supercharges your components. This is Framer’s new AI-powered coding assistant, and it brings a fresh take on code generation that the team calls “vibe-coding”. In practical terms, Workshop lets me build custom interactive components by simply describing what I need in plain language – no actual coding required. It’s like having a developer pair-programmer built into Framer, except I’m chatting with an AI.

The power of Workshop is that it can create components that match my site’s look and feel. It “builds custom components that reflect a site’s style, picking up on colors, fonts, layout, and even optimizing performance and memory in the background, so your designs stay on-brand”. For example, I could ask Workshop to “create a testimonial slider with my brand colors and smooth cross-fade transitions”, and it will generate it for me, complete with editable properties. Workshop generates components with property controls, meaning the components aren’t black-boxes – I can tweak text, images, colors, and other settings via Framer’s UI to fine-tune the result.

As someone who loves pushing design boundaries but doesn’t always want to hand-code, this is a dream. Workshop makes it “easy to create effects that used to feel out of reach—like an image card with an interactive 3D tilt”. I actually tried a prompt for a 3D-tilting image card, and Workshop built it in seconds – something that would’ve taken me a lot of React code before! Just by describing what I envision, I can get complex interactive components generated on the fly. From bold creative ideas to practical UI elements, Workshop gives everyone the tools to bring big ideas to life without a setup or coding environment. The AI even improves over time, so results will keep getting better. It’s an absolute paradigm shift in how to design websites with Framer – now I can have an idea for a custom feature and literally chat it into existence.

All-New Vector Design Tools and Icon Sets

Designers know that creating custom icons or graphics often meant jumping to another tool – but not anymore. The latest update introduces a complete reimagining of vector editing in Framer, which has been one of my favorite surprises in this release. Framer now has a revamped toolbar with new vector shape tools and intuitive path editing available anywhere on the canvas. In practice, this means I can draw shapes, icons, and illustrations directly in Framer itself, without having to import from Figma or Illustrator. The vector editing experience is smooth and familiar, but also deeply integrated with my layout.

One highlight is the new Vector Sets feature. Framer gives us a dedicated “icon canvas” where we can design a whole set of icons or graphics, and then reuse them across multiple pages and projects. I’ve started creating a custom icon library for a client’s brand – with Vector Sets, I can manage all those icons in one place and they’ll stay consistent everywhere. Even better, these sets can be shared and updated across projects, with visual browsing and search built in. It’s a godsend for maintaining a design system or style guide. Need to tweak an icon’s color or shape? Edit it once in the set, and all instances across the site update.

Framer also added Vector Animations, starting with a cool Stroke Path effect. This lets me animate the outlines of shapes (imagine a handwriting or drawing animation revealing an icon). It opens up new creative possibilities right inside Framer. Together, these enhancements deliver “an all-new design experience in Framer” for vector work. I love that I no longer have to leave Framer for custom graphics – it’s all in one workflow, and it feels seamless. For a designer, this consolidation of tools means less context switching and more creative flow.

Advanced Analytics and A/B Testing Built In

Designing a beautiful site is only half the battle – you also want to know how it performs. Previously, tracking analytics or running A/B tests on a Framer site required external tools or custom code. The new Advanced Analytics changes that by baking powerful analytics and testing right into Framer’s platform. This is a significant upgrade that turns Framer from just a design tool into a growth tool as well.

Now, with a few clicks, I can enable click tracking, conversion funnels, and A/B testing directly in the sites I publish. The update provides comprehensive reports that cut through the noise, giving me actionable insights about user behavior. For example, I can track how many users click a “Sign Up” button or submit a form, then see what percentage make it through a signup funnel. Framer’s interface will show me metrics like drop-off rates between steps, which is incredibly useful for UX improvements. If I have two variants of a page (say, different hero text or color schemes), I can set up an A/B test in minutes to see which performs better – all “without slowing down [the] site, without flickering or layout shifts, and without writing a single line of code”.

The new Advanced Analytics dashboard in Framer lets designers track page views, clicks, and even run A/B tests visually. Here, a split test compares a Control vs a Dark variant, showing which design yields better conversion rates (the “Dark” variant is the winner in this example).

From a workflow perspective, this is a big deal. It means after designing and publishing a site, I don’t have to bolt on Google Analytics or subscribe to a separate A/B testing service to understand my design’s impact. It’s all integrated. I can iterate on designs based on real data, all within Framer. For instance, after launching a portfolio site, I used Advanced Analytics to see which project case studies were getting the most views and adjusted my navigation accordingly. This release essentially closes the loop from design to measurement: I design the site, publish it, and then immediately start learning from user interactions to inform the next design update. For anyone focused on conversion rate optimization or client projects where ROI matters, having these tools at our fingertips is a huge advantage.

Why This Framer Release Is a Game-Changer (vs. Past Versions)

Framer has evolved rapidly over the past few years, but this latest Workshop update feels especially significant. In my experience, the 2025 release bridges many of the gaps that previously existed in the platform. Compared to past versions, I now spend far less time jumping between tools or writing custom code – Framer covers more of the web design process end-to-end.

Take the AI features: earlier versions of Framer had a Start with AI feature (introduced in 2023) that gave a basic starting point for sites, but it was relatively simple. The new Wireframer and Workshop are far more advanced – they leverage AI to not only create placeholder content, but to actually generate tailored layouts and functional components. This means the initial ideation-to-prototype process is insanely fast now. What used to take me days (roughing out layouts, coding interactive bits) can often be done in a morning. It’s boosting my productivity and letting me tackle more ambitious designs by removing barriers between ideas and execution.

Another huge change is the all-in-one nature of Framer after this update. In the past, a typical project might involve designing in Framer, drawing icons in Illustrator, adding custom React code for complex components, and integrating with an analytics tool post-launch. Now, I can do all of that within Framer itself. The vector tool enhancements mean fewer trips to external design software, and Workshop means less hand-coding or reliance on engineers to achieve advanced interactions. Even something like setting up 301 redirects (previously a technical chore) is now handled by Framer’s new Redirects plugin, which lets you export/import your site’s redirects for easy bulk editing – great for SEO audits. Framer is clearly listening to designers’ needs (these updates were “based on direct feedback with its loyal design community”, aimed at boosting productivity and creativity).

Crucially, Framer made these features available to everyone immediately. Unlike some platforms that limit new tools to beta testers, Framer rolled out Wireframer, Workshop, and the Vector updates to all users with no beta waitlist. Even as a long-time user, I was able to dive in on day one and start incorporating the new features into real client work. This speaks to the maturity of the release – it’s not a lab experiment, it’s ready for production use. The update feels polished and well-integrated, rather than a bunch of separate add-ons. For me, this release solidifies Framer’s position not just as a prototyping tool, but as a full-fledged web design and publishing platform that can go toe-to-toe with (or even leapfrog) older players like Webflow in certain areas. It’s also worth noting that Framer’s pricing model around these features has become more friendly – many of the AI and design tools are available on all plans, lowering the barrier for individual designers or small teams to leverage them.

In short, the 2025 Workshop release is a turning point: Framer is now truly a one-stop shop for designing, building, and optimizing websites. The workflow is more seamless than ever, and that lets me spend more time on creativity and polish, and less on fiddling with external workflows or boilerplate code.

Community Buzz and My Take as a Framer Designer

Whenever a big update like this drops, you can bet the Framer community will have thoughts – and the response to this release has been overwhelmingly enthusiastic. As I scroll through community forums and Twitter (or “X” as it’s now called), I’m seeing fellow designers share jaw-dropping examples of what they’ve built with the new tools. One designer showed off a fully functional, AI-generated tab component that they created in minutes using Workshop – something that would have been a tricky manual coding task before. Others are praising how Wireframer has helped them overcome creative block, allowing them to quickly prototype multiple layout ideas by simply trying different prompts. I’ve personally found that using Wireframer in client projects impresses stakeholders – they can literally watch me generate and iterate on a page structure in real-time, which makes the design process feel more collaborative and dynamic.

The Framer team’s emphasis on not taking away the “magic” of building a site while adding AI resonates with a lot of us. There’s a palpable excitement that these features enhance our abilities instead of replacing them. For example, Workshop doesn’t remove the need for thoughtful design – it removes the tedium and technical barriers. I still decide what kind of component I want and how it should feel; Workshop just handles the heavy lifting to make it functional. Many in the community are echoing that sentiment: the AI is a co-pilot, not a replacement. It’s making web design more accessible to those who aren’t hardcore coders, and that inclusivity has folks optimistic about the future of no-code tools.

Of course, with any new release, there are also discussions about best practices. A few power-users are already sharing tips on how to write effective prompts for Workshop (apparently this “vibe-coding” has a bit of an art to it), and how to refine AI-generated layouts from Wireframer to match your brand perfectly. I’ve picked up some great tips, like providing specific content hierarchy instructions in my Wireframer prompt (e.g., “Hero section with a big headline and subtext, followed by three feature columns with icons”) to get more tailored results. The consensus so far is that these tools, while super powerful out-of-the-box, still benefit from a designer’s strategic guidance – which is exactly what you’d hope for. They speed up the grunt work, but your vision and editing skills make the final product uniquely yours.

From my perspective, this update has reinvigorated my passion for Framer. It’s not just the new capabilities themselves, but the creative doors they open. I find myself experimenting more: “What if I ask Workshop to build a funky animated navigation menu?” or “Let’s see how quickly I can spin up a mobile landing page with Wireframer.” The fact that Framer is leaning into AI and simultaneously strengthening core design tools shows a balanced approach – and as a designer, I feel like I have superpowers at my disposal now. I’m also excited about what’s next: Framer has hinted that “we’re just getting started” with AI in Workshop. The possibilities are expanding, and I’m thrilled to be along for the ride, helping shape the future of how we build websites.

In conclusion, the latest Framer Workshop update has dramatically improved my web design workflow. The combination of AI-driven helpers (for structure and components), richer built-in design tools, and native analytics makes this release one of the most impactful in Framer’s history. Whether you’re a seasoned Framer expert or just learning how to design websites with Framer, there’s never been a better time to dive in and take advantage of these features. In my opinion, Framer 2025 isn’t just an update – it’s a bold statement about the future of no-code web design, and I’m here for it, every exciting step of the way.