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Anima - UX Design Agent | Design to Code

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From rough ideas to Figma files, Anima’s AI generates accurate frontend code that matches your design system. Say goodbye to generic code agents - build real, responsive UI that’s on-brand and ready to ship.

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Avishay Cohen
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Hey PH 👋
Avishay here, co-founder of Anima.

We built Anima the UX design agent because we hit the same wall everyone hits with vibe-coding: coding agents ship fast, but they’re design-blind. You get inconsistent UI, broken patterns, and the “AI slop”.

What Anima does: it’s a design-first playground where you can go from ideas to runnable, on-brand code, with your brand + design system in the loop. 

Start from a prompt, clone your site, paste Figma links, import a design system, then iterate with the agent. The output is real code you can hand off to engineering or to other agents via MCP. 

What makes Anima different:

  1. Design-first, not design-blind - Anima understands your brand and design system as context.

  2. Works with your existing stack - Figma, design systems, and coding agents via MCP.

  3. Real code, not just prototypes - Runnable, connected to data, and ready for handoff/publish.

  4. Built for teams - Shared workspaces, shared context, consistent output.

Who is it for:

Product teams building with AI who are tired of inconsistent UI and design-handoff friction. Designers who want to ideate faster without breaking the brand. Engineers who want clean code from day one.

Anima has been leading the design-to-code space for 8 years, and is used by teams at Amazon, Samsung, Apple, Disney, Deloitte, and more. This launch is the next chapter: design as code, with AI that actually gets it.

We’ll be here all day. Ask anything, share your feedback, questions, and hot takes 👇

- Anima team

Kimberly Ross

@avishic Hey Avishay. Congrats on launching. I love the innovation AI has in the creative field as of late. I'm curious to understand if you envision AI fully replacing front-end developers, or augmenting them? Could Anima eventually handle complex interactions, animations, or dynamic data?

Nuseir Yassin

For publishing, do you allow adding a custom domain?

Avishay Cohen
Maker
Michal Cohen
Maker

@nuseir_yassin1  we're big fans! 😍

Avishay Cohen
Maker

@nuseir_yassin1 
I tried "Create a slideshow for ‏solopreneurs on the value nas.io could bring" + our "Match a brand" tool :)
Playground here

Myriam Cohen
Maker

@nuseir_yassin1 so cool to see you here! We love you Nas :)

On Freund

Can you explain more about the design system integration?

Avishay Cohen
Maker

@on 👋 Great question!!

We integrate with design systems in multiple ways (Available on our enterprise plans)

  • Vibe code with your Figma design system - Design team could sync the Figma DS to Anima, then the whole team can ideate on top of it with AI, and stay on-brand - Product, Marketing, Sales, Leadership.

  • Vibe code with your code design system - Similar, Anima connects to your Front-end codebase, then the whole team can ideate on top of it with AI, and stay on-brand - Product, Marketing, Sales, Leadership.

    • Build product features, marketing pages, internal tools, or POCs.

    • Results could also be handed off to Claude Code / Cursor via MCP.

  • Giving your Claude Code the context of the design system via MCP - Anima learns and maps your code design system in ways that complement Claude Code / Cursor and allow engineering to use it better.

  • Generate a fully functional design system from a Figma design system

Nevo Alva

Amazing work team! can you explain more how I can take it into Claude code when I'm done?

Avishay Cohen
Maker

@nevoalva 👋
You can use Anima MCP, and then simply paste the Anima playground link into Claude Code / Codex / Cursor - so the agent could read the Playground as a handoff, add it to your existing codebase or continue from the Anima project.

S.S. Rahman

We need to either feed the figma file or we can start with a prompt, yes?

Avishay Cohen
Maker

@syed_shayanur_rahman Yes!
Multiple ways to start: Prompt/Figma/Clone website/Match a brand
Try:
"Create a Pie-day sale for ConnectMachine and match the brand of https://www.connectmachine.ai/"

You could also clone your live web app using our Chrome extension

Myriam Cohen
Maker

@syed_shayanur_rahman You can also feed both :)

Abdul Rehman

The biggest friction in AI-built products is that weird gap between prototype and production. If Anima really delivers runnable, on-brand code that engineers don’t have to clean up, that’s a big deal 🔥

Avishay Cohen
Maker

@abod_rehman 
That's what we are shooting for :)
We've been owning the design-to-code space for 8 years (1.7M installs on Figma), and today there's a new way to design - code. So we believe that code should be able to get to your codebase.

We do it by connecting to your brand, to your design system, creating clean code, and allowing Claude code read it. Thanks for the recognition!

Himani Sah

Interesting launches today. Combination of @Anima App + @Modelence App Builder + @Stitch by Google would be so powerful!!

Avishay Cohen
Maker

@himani_sah1 Interesting take!
@Anima App does play well with other agents, we also play nice with @OpenClaw 🦞
Design skill for coding agents and OpenClaw: https://skill.animaapp.com, also on ClawHub.

Roop Reddy

Congrats on launching. How is this different from just using Figma + a coding agent like Cursor or Claude?

Avishay Cohen
Maker

@roopreddy Great question!

  • The fastest way to see the difference is to try this (At dev.animaapp.com):
    "Create a landing page for DocumentationAI, match the brand of https://documentation.ai, and the topic should be the Access Control feature, research online and see the changelog for details."
    Figma is just one entry point (We're also the #1 Figma to code solution with 1.7 million installs)

  • You can also start by cloning your website or webapp (Use our Chrome extension)

  • We can also bring your full design system (contact us if you're interested)

Would love to hear your feedback!

Cruise Chen

Great tool to clone and evolve nice websites design! Just curious - could it generate high end design for banner/posters in future too?

Myriam Cohen
Maker

@cruise_chen Absolutely! it can create visuals based on your brand style / DNA

Germán Merlo

Loved it team! Design made easy and friendly. Wish you all the best here!

Myriam Cohen
Maker

@german_merlo1 thank you so much!

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