AI tools for Figma to code

Three ways a tool can read a design

A screenshot. Any tool that accepts an image can look at a frame, including a chat app. It will estimate the sizes and colours, so expect to be close on layout and off on exact values, type above all. Good for a sketch.

An export. Frame images, the image and icon assets, and a written list of the file's colour and text styles, placed in the project folder. A tool that works in the folder reads the values from the list and uses the picture as the reference. A connection. With an MCP server or a similar link set up, an agent asks the design file directly for a frame's structure and values. Check the documentation of both the design tool and the AI tool for what the connection returns.

What the tool has to be able to write

A design file describes more than one page's worth of decisions: styles that become tokens, components with variants, layout rules that become flex and grid. Carrying those over needs a project with several files, so the natural fit is a coding agent or an editor. Some app builders accept a design as input; check the builder's documentation for how.

A design file also leaves things out. Hover and focus states, motion, the phone layout if no phone frame was drawn. A tool will invent whatever is missing, so the brief should supply it or ask the tool to list each decision it had to make.

Ask for a match, then a difference list

Say that the job is to match, not to improve. Ask for tokens named as they are in the file, components that mirror the file's components, and the frame's own width as the first target. Then ask for a comparison: a screenshot of the built page beside the frame, with every difference over a couple of pixels listed.

Our own library is relevant here in one way: every uberdesigner template includes its Figma file alongside the prompt and the project, so a designer can open the source, change it and hand the changed frames to a tool by any of the three routes above.

What a Figma-to-code brief should contain

• How the design is read: screenshot, export folder or connection, stated plainly.
• The frame, by name, and its width.
• Tokens from the file's styles, with the file's names kept.
• One component per Figma component, variants as props.
• What the file does not show: states, motion, the phone layout.
• A side-by-side check with a list of differences.

A prompt to start from

Build the frame "[frame name]" from my Figma file as a page in this project. Match the design; do not improve it.

How you read the design: [through the Figma connection set up in this tool / from ./design, which holds a PNG of the frame at 1x and 2x, styles.md listing the colour and text styles, and every image and icon exported to ./design/assets]. Read all of it before writing code, then report the frame width, the grid, the text and colour styles and the components used.

Stack: Vite + React + TypeScript, plain CSS. No UI library.

Step 1, tokens. Turn the file's colour and text styles into custom properties in src/styles/tokens.css, keeping the names used in Figma. Take values from the file, not from the picture. Where the design uses a value with no style, for example a one-off 18px gap, list it and ask.

Step 2, components. One React component for each Figma component in the frame, with its variants as props. Auto layout becomes flex or grid with the same gap and padding. Position nothing absolutely unless it overlaps something in the design.

Step 3, the page. Assemble the frame at its designed width of [1440]px. Use the exported images and icons, no substitutes.

Not in the file, so use these: buttons darken by 8% over 0.15s on hover; focus shows a 2px outline, offset 2px; [describe any motion, or write "no motion"]. With prefers-reduced-motion, no transitions.

Phones: [the file has a 390px frame named "[name]"; build it as the layout below 720px / there is no phone frame, so stack each row into one column with 16px margins, set headlines to 60% of their desktop size and tell me every decision you made].

Check: run it, screenshot the page at the frame's width, set it beside the Figma export, and list every difference over 2px in position or size and every colour that differs.

Written for this page as a starting point; swap the parts in [brackets] for your own. The full prompt of each uberdesigner template is longer and specific to one finished design, and it is tested by rebuilding the template from the prompt alone.

Keep reading

• Using a design library with any AI toolThe four ways a template from a design library reaches an AI tool: the prompt, the project, the Figma file and an MCP server. Which route suits which kind of tool.
• How to choose an AI tool for web designFour questions that pick a kind of AI tool for a web design job: who owns the code, where your content is, who maintains the site and whether hosting is included.

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