Hand Over a Live URL, Not a Redline.

Present the Product Instead of Describing It

Describe the interface and the behavior behind it, and get a working application with real data and real sign-in. Send a link the client can click through, rather than a prototype that dead-ends at the second screen.

  • No coding required
  • Real data and states
  • Shareable live URL
Key takeaways
  • Present a working URL so feedback lands on behavior rather than on decoration
  • There is no Figma import; you describe the design and iterate toward it
  • Design against real data and real states, including empty and error cases

Where a Design Loses Its Meaning

A file can describe an interface. It cannot demonstrate one.

The Handoff Tax

You specify states, spacing and empty screens. What ships is an interpretation, and the gap is discovered after it is expensive to close.

A Prototype That Fakes the Hard Part

Clicking through a Figma flow proves the happy path. The real questions are the empty state, the error, and the row with forty items in it.

Feedback on the Wrong Layer

Present a static screen and you get notes on the color. Present a working product and you get notes on whether it works.

Waiting Kills the Idea

A direction is sharpest the week you thought of it. Reviewing it a month later means arguing about a decision nobody remembers making.

What You Can Actually Show

A working interface you can direct, revise and send as a link.

Describe Layout and Behavior

Specify structure, hierarchy, states and what should happen on interaction. The behavior is part of the brief, not a note in the margin.

A Consistent Starting Point

Generated interfaces use Tailwind CSS with a coherent type scale, spacing and color system, so you are refining rather than repairing.

Responsive From the Start

Layouts adapt across mobile, tablet and desktop. Check the breakpoints that matter to your project and adjust by describing the change.

Iterate in Plain English

"More breathing room in the header." "Try this on a dark surface." Describe the revision and review the result in the same session.

Real Data and Real States

Forms submit, records persist, sign-in works. You get to design against actual content instead of placeholder text.

A Link, Not a File

Publish a working URL for review. No PDF export, no prototype that needs a caveat before the client clicks it.

What Designers Build

Client Review

Walk a client through the real workflow and get decisions instead of preferences.

Portfolio Pieces

Let a visitor use the thing rather than scroll past a screenshot of it.

Design System in Use

See your components under real content, real lengths and real states.

Testing a Direction

Build two versions of a flow and put both in front of someone before committing.

Your Own Product

Take the side idea you have designed three times and put it somewhere people can sign up.

A Starting Point for Engineering

Hand a working reference to a development team so the spec is the product, not a document about it.

In-depth guide

From Static Screens to a Product Designers Can Hand Over

The gap designers live with is not a tooling gap, it is an evidence gap. Figma proves a layout. It cannot prove what happens when a record is missing, when a list is long, when a form is submitted twice, or when a user returns the next day to find their data. Those are design questions, and they have historically only been answerable after engineering had already committed to an interpretation of your file.

Describe behavior alongside appearance: Structure, hierarchy, type and color are the familiar half of the brief. The other half is what happens on interaction, what the empty state says and what an error looks like. Specifying both is what turns a description into a working screen.

Design against real content: Once records persist and sign-in works, you are refining against genuine data lengths and genuine states rather than against placeholder text that always fits.

Hand over something unambiguous: A working reference removes most of the interpretation from a handoff. Engineering can read the behavior rather than infer it, and the conversation moves to architecture instead of to what you meant.

Questions Designers Ask

Do I need to write code?
No. Describe the interface in design terms and the behavior in plain English. Reading the output helps but is not required.
Can it match my Figma file?
Not automatically. There is no Figma import. Describe the layout, hierarchy, type and color and iterate toward your design. Expect to get close and then refine, rather than to press a button and get a pixel match.
How much visual control do I actually have?
Color, type, spacing, layout and component structure all respond to description, and you can keep refining. It is directable, not automatic. Plan on a few rounds for a screen you care about.
Is it genuinely functional or just a shell?
Genuinely functional. Forms submit, data persists and users can sign in. Test the flows before you present them, particularly empty and error states.
Will the animation and micro-interaction detail survive?
Basic transitions and states are handled well. Elaborate choreography is where you should expect the most iteration, and sometimes a compromise.

Send a Link Instead of a File

Describe the interface and the behavior behind it, then publish a working URL for review. Start free.