No designer? Plan the UI without a Figma file.
Short answer: if a designer is drawing your screens, use Figma and point your agent at it through the Figma MCP server. If it's you and a coding agent, use UIPrompt: plan every page from ready-made sections, with exact copy, your brand and your stack, and Claude Code, Codex or Cursor builds it in your own repo.
UIPrompt vs Figma
| Topic | UIPrompt | Figma |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A planning tool: the UI plan your coding agent builds from. | A design tool: where designers draw, prototype and hand off interfaces. |
| Who makes it | Developers, from ready-made sections, or their agent from a description or screenshot. | Designers, frame by frame. Figma Make can also generate from a prompt. |
| What your agent gets | The whole app: which pages exist, sections in order, a prompt and exact copy per component. | Design context for the frames you point it at: layout, styles, variables and assets. |
| Mapping to your code | Import your repo: routes become pages, stack and design tokens are detected, and each page shows Built or Planned. | Code Connect links design components to the components in your codebase. |
| Stack | Your declared framework, styling and component library, with Strict Stack mode so the agent only uses what you listed. | Code Connect mappings guide which components the agent reuses. |
| Coding agents | MCP connector, or a pull request that puts the brief in your repo for Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. | The Figma MCP server, for clients such as Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. |
| Learning curve | Sections snap to a 12-column grid; no design skills needed. | A full professional design tool, best in a designer’s hands. |
Figma's AI and developer features change often. Check Figma's MCP server docs for what it supports today.
When Figma is the better choice
- You have a designer. If someone is crafting the screens, Figma is where that work belongs, and its MCP server gets it to your agent.
- The visual detail is the product. Custom illustration, motion and pixel-level polish need a real design tool. UIPrompt plans structure, copy and rules, not artwork.
- You maintain a design system. Figma libraries plus Code Connect keep a large component system in step between design and code.
- You need clickable prototypes for user testing. Figma prototyping is built for that; UIPrompt goes straight to the real build.
Plenty of products never get a design file: a developer, a coding agent and a list of pages to ship. Asking the agent page by page gets you pages that don't match. A plan for the whole app, written once and built from every time, is what keeps them consistent.
How UIPrompt works
- Start a project, or import your GitHub repo (private ones too).
- Lay out each page from ready-made sections (hero, pricing, sign-in, checkout and more), with a prompt and exact copy per component.
- Apply your brand kit, read from your existing site, and declare your stack. Strict Stack mode keeps the agent to what you listed.
- Ship the brief to your repo as a pull request, or let your agent pull it through the UIPrompt connector.
- Your agent builds it. Each page shows Built or Planned from your repo.
Using Claude Code? See the Claude Code setup. Also compare Google Stitch and v0.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need Figma to build a good UI with Claude Code or Cursor?
Not if you have no designer. Figma works best when someone designs the screens. Without one, UIPrompt lets you plan every page yourself, from ready-made sections, with exact copy, your brand and your stack, and your coding agent builds it in your own repo.
How is UIPrompt different from Figma with its MCP server?
The Figma MCP server gives your agent the design of the frames you point it at. UIPrompt gives it the plan for the whole app: which pages exist, what goes on each and in what order, the copy, the brand files and the libraries to stick to, plus which pages are already built in your repo.
Can I use Figma and UIPrompt together?
Yes. Keep the visual design in Figma and the build plan in UIPrompt. Through the UIPrompt connector, your agent can lay out a page on the canvas from a screenshot of a Figma frame, with exact copy for you to review before it builds.
Is UIPrompt a Figma replacement for designers?
No. UIPrompt doesn’t do vector design, prototyping or design systems the way Figma does. It is for developers who build with AI coding agents and need a clear plan rather than a design file.
What does UIPrompt cost?
The editor demo is free with no signup. Connecting your agent and shipping briefs to GitHub are part of the paid plans, and teammates you invite as viewers are free.
Plan the UI. Your coding agent builds exactly that.
No design file needed. Plan every page once, set your brand, and let the agent you already use build it consistently.