Framer acquires ProtoGen to add AI-driven interaction flows and behavior scripting

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The acquisition brings ProtoGen’s interaction synthesis engine into Framer, enabling designers to describe desired behaviors in natural language and get fully wired prototypes. Framer says the engine can generate interactions, state machines, and conditional flows that map to Framer’s runtime components.

Framer’s strategy is to shorten the gap between static mockups and interactive prototypes by letting designers iterate on behavior without hand-coding. The company will integrate versioned behavior snippets into its component library so teams can reuse generated interactions consistently.

Framer also announced an enterprise offering that allows teams to train ProtoGen’s behavior generator on in-house patterns and testing data, reducing the need for post-generation adjustment in large product organizations.