Teaching students how to prototype with AI tools instead of Figma revealed exciting possibilities and uncomfortable trade-offs. It also offered valuable insight into how non-tech people can create apps with generative AI.I teach digital prototyping to fashion design undergraduates and master’s students at UPM’s Fashion School. My course focuses on exploring app concepts that can enrich the fashion experience. Past project ideas ranged from aesthetic affinity social communities (and dating) and live-action fashion-branded games to smart garment upcycling, VR fashion recommendations, and even a shared laundry app for roommates.In previous semesters, I asked my students to prototype in Figma and standard design software. This past term, however, we switched to an entirely AI-based toolset, including Google Stitch, Google AI Studio, and Lovable.The main reason for this change was, as Philip van Allen anticipated in his pre-LLM paper, that new AI design tools (such as Lovable or Bolt) would be much better suited to explore dynamic, interactive behaviors and flows than classic static screen-based design tools like Figma (in its 2025 version). Precious Ogar discusses the approach in more