What is UX design?

Learn what UX design is, why it matters, and how to become a UX designer. Explore key skills, UX vs. UI, the design process, and steps to start your career.

14 best Figma alternatives for UI and UX Design

Figma is powerful but not perfect. Explore 14 UI and UX design tools, from open-source to AI-first, to find the best Figma alternative for your team.

Data Sovereignty and AI: Managing Risk in Product Workflows

AI is reshaping data sovereignty. Learn how AI-powered design and development tools create new risks, and how to build a sovereignty-first product stack.

Penpot AI workflows explained

What AI workflows are, how Penpot MCP connects your files to agents, and when they’re worth using on real product work.

What is prototyping? A beginner’s guide

Learn what prototyping is, why it matters, and how to get started. From low-fidelity sketches to interactive flows, this guide covers everything you need to build better products before a single line of code is written.

How to integrate Penpot with your developer toolchain: APIs and webhooks for workflow automation

Turn design updates into automated workflows. Learn how to connect Penpot with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Slack, and custom scripts using APIs, access tokens, and webhooks.

8 advanced Penpot features for product teams (and why you should use them)

Discover 8 advanced Penpot features that help product teams reduce design-to-development friction, create more efficient workflows, and maintain consistency at scale.

Set up Penpot MCP with Cursor in 5 steps and no code

The fastest and simplest way to get started with Penpot and AI workflows from scratch. Learn how to get started with Penpot and Cursor, a code editor with an integrated AI client.

Set up Penpot MCP with OpenRouter and OpenCode in 6 steps

One of the fastest ways to set up Penpot for AI workflows in just 6 steps, no coding required, and only using free, open, and/or low-cost tools.

Practical uses for math functions in design tokens

Penpot design tokens support both basic calculations and complex math functions. Let’s explore how you can use both to level up your design systems.

How to make your prompts more efficient

The following “token-aware” approach treats prompts like structured contracts instead of a wish-list or diary, so you get better outputs in fewer iterations (and with fewer prompt credits).  

The designer's guide to effective AI prompting

Learn how to write structured, token‑aware AI prompts in Penpot so you get cleaner design systems, fewer hallucinations, and faster, production‑ready outputs.