I want to share my experience with Google Stitch after spending a long time trying to build and refine a real website design project.
Unfortunately, the experience has been extremely frustrating and, at many points, almost unusable for serious design work.
The first major issue is that Stitch does not reliably follow prompts. Even when I write very detailed instructions, with clear “do not change” rules, exact section names, and specific visual requirements, Stitch often ignores them, changes unrelated areas, or produces something completely different from what was requested.
A second major problem is editing control. The editing experience feels very limited. I can change text, but I cannot freely move sections or elements manually in a practical way. If I want to adjust the position of a section, move a block, align a layout, or reuse the style of another section, I have very little direct control. I have to depend on prompts, and there is no guarantee that Stitch will understand or apply the change correctly.
Another serious issue is that sometimes Stitch simply stops responding to edits. I can send prompt after prompt, each one more specific than the previous one, but nothing meaningful changes. It feels like I am not doing anything at all. This is extremely frustrating when I am trying to refine one specific section and the tool keeps ignoring the request.
Stitch also frequently creates new pages even when I explicitly tell it not to. I repeatedly write instructions like “do not create a new page” and “modify only the existing page,” yet it still generates new versions or separate pages. This makes the project messy and difficult to manage.
Sometimes the result is not just slightly wrong; it is completely different from the request. A small change to one section can damage the header, remove content, change another section, or break a layout that was already approved.
Another issue happens when leaving the project and coming back later. The canvas sometimes opens empty, or it opens far away from the actual designs. I have to search for the designs like looking for a needle in a haystack, or I have to click through agent history hoping it takes me back to the correct design area.
Even worse, when I return to a project, Stitch sometimes brings back pages that I had already deleted. Then I have to identify them and delete them again. This makes project management unreliable and confusing.
Undo behavior is also a big problem. Many times, Ctrl + Z does not work as expected. Also, navigating between agent history steps is not reliable. In my opinion, if I click a previous agent history entry, it should clearly take me back to what was done in that step, or allow me to move backward and forward between changes in a predictable way.
Selection is another major limitation. I cannot easily select multiple areas and tell Stitch to apply the style of one section to another. For example, if I want one hero section to match the size, color, and shape of a hero section on another page, I cannot simply select both as reference and target in a reliable way. Instead, I often have to take screenshots and explain the request in prompts, and even then the result may or may not match.
The biggest problem is the lack of predictability. There is no clear sense that Stitch will execute the request according to the prompt. Sometimes it follows part of the instruction, sometimes it ignores the most important part, and sometimes it does something completely unexpected.
For a tool that is supposed to help designers build interfaces faster, this creates the opposite effect. I spend more time fighting the tool, correcting its mistakes, deleting unwanted pages, restoring broken layouts, and rewriting prompts than actually designing.
Stitch has potential, but right now it needs serious improvement in:
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Prompt adherence
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Manual editing controls
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Reliable section selection
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Multi-section referencing
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Undo and history navigation
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Preventing unwanted new page generation
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Keeping deleted pages deleted
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Preserving approved sections during edits
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Predictable project reopening behavior
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Better control over layout, spacing, and positioning
I understand that Stitch may still be experimental, but the current editing experience makes it very difficult to trust for a real project. The tool needs more precise control, better prompt execution, and safer editing behavior before it can be used seriously in production-level design work.