re-introducing ion design (YC W24) we turn designers into design engineers without them learning how to code ⚡ it’s an AI app builder that turns Figma into code - generate, iterate, and ship in seconds. let's make 2025 the year of the design engineer, together 🧵

ion is an IDE built for designers that empowers them to ship: 1. design in Figma 2. generate & iterate. ion uses your existing components, styles, and structure. you can prompt to iterate and build a WORKING app. 3. create Github PRs in ion or handoff to engineers.

our goal is to create 1000x more design engineers who can: - handle the first round of frontend - make design fixes, copy edits, and updates w/o engineering - work with your git repo directly this means you’ll be able to accomplish more than ever, without hiring more resources

we’re the first AI app builder that is built for designers others focus on replacing you, but we’re here to empower you good design won’t be automated. instead, you’ll be able to accomplish much more and finally see your creations come to life - on your own terms

ion is open to use right now - your first ten generations are free. get started here -

Congrats on launching, this looks super useful! Would be great if you could specify packages to use -- for example, not to generate an SVG of an icon, but use Radix or Heroicons. Or stick to Shadcn etc.

this is coming very soon. We support a few design systems out of the box right now but we'll be making support to upload your own and tweak preferred output

Love the idea of empowering designers to become design engineers! How does Ion Design handle complex design systems and scalability? ⚡️

we do a lot of work to understand existing components and design systems to integrate them properly. the glue between the components on figma gets a bit hard - so we do some matching algorithms on that side.

Congraats

Thanks my man!