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Designers, developers, and product teams who want to design interfaces directly in real code and eliminate the gap between design and implementation
About Lunagraph
Lunagraph is an AI-powered design canvas that allows users to create user interfaces directly using real code instead of abstract design layers, combining visual design and development into a single workflow. It enables designers, developers, product teams, and other collaborators to build interfaces using actual HTML, CSS, and React components, ensuring that what is created on the canvas is exactly what ships in production. It eliminates traditional handoff processes by allowing users to design directly with the “raw material” of code, avoiding translation errors and inconsistencies between design files and implementation. It integrates an AI assistant, powered by Claude Code, that works alongside the canvas to help refactor components, generate variations, apply design systems, and make large-scale changes while maintaining the full context of the project, including the codebase and design assets.
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