Meet AI Design Tool that Will Help You Generate Code-Backed UI

UXPin
4 min readOct 10, 2024

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Meet UXPin’s AI Component Creator — the revolutionary tool that brings your designs to life with just a few clicks.

Whether you’re working with static images or existing elements, our AI transforms them into fully coded components using MUI, Ant Design, React-Bootstrap, or Tailwind UI. Simply upload a sketch or right-click to convert, and watch your UI come to life — no coding required.

Ready to see it in action? Request a demo here or sign up for a free trial.

The Challenge of AI-Generated UI

Despite their potential, many AI-generated UI solutions fall short in real-world applications due to several challenges:

  • Lack of Consistency: AI-generated designs often struggle to maintain consistent styles, layouts, and themes, making them difficult to integrate into existing projects.
  • Image-Based, Not Code-Based: Many tools generate UIs as images or static elements without code, limiting their use for developers.
  • User Data Privacy Concerns: Some AI tools use user data to train their models, raising privacy and security issues.
  • Difficult to Maintain: The output often lacks scalability and adaptability, making it challenging to update or maintain as design requirements change.

How Does UXPin Solve it?

Unlike other tools that focus on images, UXPin creates interactive, code-backed components that are instantly usable for development.

  • Generates Code-Backed Components: UXPin’s AI Component Creator generates fully functional UI components from popular open-source libraries like MUI, Ant Design, Tailwind UI, and React-Bootstrap. This ensures that the output is development-ready and easily integrates with your codebase.
  • Seamless Design-to-Code Transition: Whether you start with an image, text prompt, or static UI element, the tool converts your input into consistent, production-ready code, maintaining the chosen library’s theming.
  • Maintains Design Consistency: Using library-based theming and standards, UXPin ensures consistency across components, making your designs easier to scale and maintain.
  • Using Open-Source Components: Unlike other tools, UXPin does not use user data to train external AI models, keeping your designs secure.
  • Scalability and Easy Maintenance: The generated components are built for real-world applications, enabling you to scale, update, and maintain them as your project evolves.

What is UXPin’s AI Component Creator?

UXPin’s AI Component Creator revolutionizes how designers and developers bridge the gap between design and code. Imagine transforming an idea into a fully functional UI component within minutes. That’s exactly what this tool offers.

🤖 Generate UI Based on the Prompt

Write a text prompt describing the desired UI, and the AI will generate a fully coded component that matches your specifications.

🖼️ Turn Images into Functional UI

Generate production-ready UI directly from images or sketches to speed up prototyping and optimize design handoff.

🧩 Transform UI Elements into Code

Convert static UXPin elements that you put on the canvas into code-backed UI components. All you need is right-click an element and hit AI.

🎨 Automate Theming

Generate MUI components with predefined themes instead of inline CSS, ensuring design consistency and easy scalability.

How to Use AI Component Creator

  1. Get an OpenAI API Key: Sign up on the OpenAI website and generate your API key.
  2. Enable AI Component Creator: Contact UXPin support to activate this feature if you’re on the Merge AI plan or have Merge enabled
  3. Open AI Component Creator: Navigate to the Editor and access it from the Quick Tools panel.
  4. Enter the API Key: Go to the Settings tab and paste your OpenAI API Key in the designated field.
  5. Generate Components: Open the Prompt tab to generate components using text descriptions or upload images to transform them into code-backed elements.

That’s it! You’re now ready to turn your static designs into fully functional UI components in seconds. For a more in-depth guide, check out our documentation.

Ready to see it in action? Request a demo here or sign up for a free trial.

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