Flowstep
Design & ship real UI
1.6K followers
Design & ship real UI
1.6K followers
The next generation of UI design. AI-native, canvas-first, and 1:1 with production code.
This is the 2nd launch from Flowstep. View more
Flowstep 1.0
Launched this week
Flowstep is the AI design engineer for developers and technical designers tired of rebuilding designs in code. Prompt or edit on an infinite canvas. Export production code or connect with your agents and apps via MCP. What you design is exactly what ships.
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@lakshminath_dondeti Thanks for the question.
It's different shapes for different workflows. Pencil is a design canvas inside your IDE. Claude Design is broader in scope (decks, prototypes, one-pagers) and bundled with a Claude subscription.
We're more focused: a standalone web app for UI generation, with clean React/Tailwind output and one-click Figma export. Better designing and iteration experience. No IDE setup, no Claude plan required to try it.
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@lakshminath_dondeti thanks for the question!
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@lakshminath_dondeti we use a mix of models, depending on the task and stage.
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@anusuya_bhuyan Honest answer – it depends on your standard for production-ready code.
Flowstep outputs clean React + Tailwind you can ship as-is for most UIs. API and state wiring – if the app needs any – that's still on devs. At least, today. So the real question is: where's your line?
Is this meant for legit designers and devs, or teams that are trying to cut corners by not hiring design and dev? Are there guardrails to keep the designs "good".
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@diana_polansky1 we believe that designers and devs are the ones making the call — the tool just speeds up getting to a good first version, not replacing them.
On guardrails: designs follow your design guidelines if you bring one, and you can set tighter rules on top of that. Not about cutting corners, more about cutting the boring parts.
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This is the kind of shift that actually matters less about designing screen more about desigining shippable system.Curious how reliable the generated code is in real projects.
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@aarav_pittman That's the framing we care about. The export is clean React + Tailwind — it's a starting point you can build on, not a black box. Easiest to just export something and judge it yourself ;)
to answer your question: the one thing usually missing in these tools is state management. if flowstep can help scaffold the basic useState or useEffect logic while i'm building the ui on the canvas, i’m never opening figma for web work again. definitely checking out the free trial today.. @clannachan
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@vikramp7470 Noted — state scaffolding alongside the UI is a real gap. Curious how you handle it now?
@karabeen Right now, it’s the classic manual bridge I export the JSX/Tailwind and then spend 20 minutes wiring up useState for toggles, useEffect for data fetching, and handling loading states.
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@vikramp7470 Got it, that's really useful context. Thanks for taking the time — enjoy the trial, and would love to hear what else stands out once you've poked around.
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@karabeen @vikramp7470 State management is something I have always missed from design tools too! We have plans how to tackle this so I hope manual wiring will not be required soon.
Have you tried out exporting with MCP? Agents are pretty good these days at guessing state and effects just from the code and visuals we provide.
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@vikramp7470 great feedback!!
@clannachan Thanks
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@clannachan @vikramp7470 Exactly. The speed-consistency tradeoff is real, and it gets messy fast when you need to propagate design changes across a whole product. That's where having an AI that understands your design system and can apply it consistently across new UI becomes a genuine time saver.
Can you import a design system?
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@dan_tatar Today you can import design tokens as a DESIGN.md file. Component support is next on our radar.
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👋 Matt here, co-founder of Flowstep.
Last year, we shipped Flowstep as an AI designer. But you kept telling us the same thing:
"it gets me 80% there, then I rebuild the whole thing in code"
We fixed that.
Flowstep is now an AI design engineer.
→ Prompt or manually edit on an infinite canvas
→ Get production React + TypeScript + Tailwind + shadcn
→ Export the code, or pipe it into Cursor / Claude Code / Windsurf via MCP
Why this exists: The process of fast iteration, multiple concepts next to each other, full control in an infinite canvas 🤌 You shouldn't have to give up that experience because of a translation layer. That's why design and code are the same thing in Flowstep.
Free to try at flowstep.ai, paid plans available from $15 p/m.
💬 Drop a comment — tell us what's missing. We listen and ship multiple times per day.