Dev: great UI is Figma + Claude + hours of manual polish, AI only cut dev time 50%
Roger_M_Taylor · x · 2026-10-05
While open-sourcing his UI project, developer marcelkargul answered the recurring question of how his team's UIs look so good. The process is unglamorous:
- Design first in Figma
- Build with Claude's help
- Spend hours manually fixing small details and improving code quality
"There is no secret," he writes: AI has sped up their dev time by over 50%, but it has not removed the need for manual work. A pragmatic counterpoint to the expectation that AI can one-shot polished UIs.
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