The gap between an approved design and a built page is where most projects lose weeks. AI narrows it — with one honest caveat about what a static frame can't specify.
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Design files describe one state at one width. Websites are fluid, interactive and full of states nobody drew. That gap is the entire implementation phase, and it's why design-to-code is harder than it looks.
What a static frame specifies
Layout at the width it was drawn. Type sizes and weights, colours, spacing, the visual treatment of components.
That's a lot, and it's the part a developer would otherwise be measuring by eye or extracting by hand from the file — the tedious and error-prone half of implementation.
What it leaves undefined
How the layout behaves between the breakpoints that were drawn. Hover, focus, active and disabled states. Loading and empty states. What happens when a heading runs to three lines or a price has four digits.
Generation fills these with sensible defaults rather than reading them from the design, because the design doesn't contain them. They're worth reviewing explicitly.
Where the time actually goes
In a conventional handover, most of the time is spent measuring and re-specifying things already decided in the design. Generation removes that, and leaves the genuinely undefined parts as the work.
That's a better distribution: the remaining decisions need judgement, and they're now the only thing left to spend it on.
Common questions
Do I need to prepare the design in a particular way?
Consistent spacing and a real type scale in the design produce a cleaner result, as they would for any implementer.
Will the output be pixel-perfect to the design?
Close at the drawn width. Fluid layout means other widths are interpreted rather than matched, which is generally what you want.
What about components and variants?
Repeated components are generated from a shared definition. Variant behaviour defined only in the file's prototype layer isn't inferred.
Can I export React?
Yes — React components or HTML and CSS.
Generate from the design, then review the states the design never drew.