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Hero section exploration for new @framer AI atutomation template
#automation #ai
Nice visual
Built an animated hero section using AI - and honestly, I didn't write most of the code.
Here's what the stack looked like:
→ Lovable to scaffold the component in minutes
→ ReactBits for the pre-built animated primitives
→ My brain for the direction, layout decisions, and taste
The result? A hero section that would've taken me 3–4 hours to hand-code — done in under 30 minutes.
This is what AI-assisted development actually looks like in 2026. Not "AI replaces devs." More like - AI handles the repetitive execution, and you focus on what actually matters: the creative decisions.
I'm using this kind of workflow across my digital products brand Sunstroke Digitals - fast, clean, ship-ready UI without burning hours on boilerplate.
Drop your answer below 👇
Are you building with AI tools yet — or still going full manual?
(No wrong answers — genuinely curious where everyone's at)
#FrontendDevelopment #UIDesign #AITools #BuildInPublic #DigitalProducts #FreelanceDesign
I've been testing a new app design workflow this weekend, and it feels fundamentally different from how I've worked for the past 20 years.
Normally my process looks something like:
Idea → Sketch → Figma → Prototype → Handoff → Build
This time I skipped most of it.
I wanted to see how far I could come without Figma using Codex. My first prompt was simply:
"Create a meal-planning app using the Build-iOS-App plugin."
It built a full app for me, but the first version was very generic, so I gave it a few design references and some visual guidelines and asked it to generate 3 different design mockups. Codex generated new design directions, I picked one and it applied the directly to the working prototype.
Mindblown. But then I asked it to create a logo inspired by another food app.
It did and even implemented it into the app directly together with an app icon.
No Figma involved.
As if this wasn't enough I was also testing a setup that exposes the iOS Simulator directly inside Codex using serve-sim.
That meant I could review the running app, click on areas I didn't like, leave comments such as "too much space here", and have Codex update the implementation directly.
No alt-tabbing between Xcode, simulator and Codex just to explain a simple detail.
Within about an hour I had a working prototype, visual design direction, branding, app icon, and multiple design iterations.
The quality wasn't perfect, but that's not what stood out to me.
What stood out was how little time I spent creating design artifacts.
Most of my time was spent reviewing, directing, and refining.
For early-stage product exploration, this felt less like designing screens and more like art directing a system.
I'm not convinced tools like Figma are going anywhere, but I do think workflows are changing much faster than most of us realize.
Has anyone else been experimenting with similar design-to-code workflows?
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