CROSS-CATEGORY: Design Tool Wars Erupt — Claude Design, Google Stitch, and Canva AI 2.0 All Attack Figma Simultaneously

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Three AI-native design tools launched or received major updates within weeks of each other, all targeting Figma's $13K/year-per-20-person-team pricing: Anthropic's Claude Design (April 17) with code-to-canvas pipeline, Google Stitch's March update adding multi-screen generation and free unlimited access, and Canva AI 2.0 spanning UI generation, marketing assets, and agentic workflows. Figma shares dropped 4%+ on the Google Stitch announcement alone. The convergence signal is unmistakable: an AI company (Anthropic), a cloud giant (Google), and a marketing tool (Canva) simultaneously decided the design tool category is vulnerable — and all three are offering AI-native approaches that generate designs from natural language rather than manual pixel manipulation.