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Meet the People Behind the Product: An Inside Look at Anima’s Dynamic Team
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima, a seven year old thriving startup making waves in the world of design to code, has been turning heads not just for its groundbreaking product but also for the small but extraordinary team driving its success. In this article, we delve into the personalities and passions of the people behind Anima, discovering how this tight-knit group carries diverse worlds on their journey to success.
March 6, 2024
3 min
GenAI Figma to Code: 6 Examples of how to use Anima’s new AI Code Customization
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anima's latest innovation, GenAI code personalization within Figma, is game-changing for front-end developers. This feature introduces a layer of customization that speaks directly to the developer's style and technical requirements. Let’s see how Anima’s GenAI helps you add code conventions, styles, behaviors, and animations.
February 20, 2024
5 min
Introducing Anima GenAI Code Personalization – Prompt in Figma to Customize Your Code
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, we’re thrilled to launch our GenAI code personalization! A whole new level of design to code workflow. If you ask 1000 developers, you’ll get 1000 different sets of tech stacks, coding styles and conventions. One constant feedback we get about Anima’s generated code, is that will never look the same as if they had been written it themselves.
January 30, 2024
3 min
Enhancing ReactJS Code Generation with LLMs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Explore the evolution of code generation at Anima, where six years of experience meets the latest in LLMs and generative AI. Dive into the complexities of front-end development, from HTML and CSS to responsive behavior, interactivity, and beyond.
January 8, 2024
3 min
Interview with Ofer, Anima’s Newly Appointed VP of R&D
Reading Time: 6 minutes Anima recently welcomed Ofer as its new Vice President of Research and Development. With our focus on AI and GenAI, and Ofer's rich experience at Wix, we believe his perspectives are incredibly valuable to our community. We recently sat down with him for a conversation, and we're thrilled to share some highlights with you.
December 17, 2023
6 min
Convert any Figma design into React with Styled Components
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima will turn any Figma design into React code with Typescript or Javascript, and Styled Components.
November 5, 2023
2 min
Introducing Generative AI in Design-to-Code at Anima
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima with GenAI and multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) are both groundbreaking innovations, but they serve different niches in the technological landscape.
October 24, 2023
3 min
How to export Figma to Vue
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re trying to convert Figma to Vue without writing the code from scratch, this article is for you. We’ll show you how to export your Figma designs as Vue in a few easy steps using Anima. Anima will turn each design property into Vue code (Vue2 and Vue3) with Typescript or Javascript.
October 16, 2023
2 min
How to export Tailwind CSS from Figma
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article will show you how to seamlessly export Figma designs into Tailwind CSS using Anima. Anima will map your design properties to Tailwind's base styles. Design attributes, such as colors, spacing, and typography, will be translated into concise Tailwind classes.
September 27, 2023
3 min
The future of design-dev alignment and methodology
Reading Time: 5 minutes Although the concepts of product design and development have become increasingly similar, we still have two sources of truth — Design and Code. Anima is here to automate design-to-code with AI, freeing developers and designers to create and build digital products faster.
September 11, 2023
5 min
Introducing Tailwind CSS Support in Anima
Reading Time: 2 minutes We're thrilled to announce that Tailwind CSS support is live! Anima will map your design properties to Tailwind's base styles. Design attributes, such as colors, spacing, and typography, will be translated into concise Tailwind classes.
September 5, 2023
2 min
Introducing HTML Support in Figma’s Dev Mode with Anima
Reading Time: 2 minutes Build in Figma, and Anima will translate your designs into HTML. Copy paste, export or open in Codesandbox, right from Figma's Dev Mode.
August 24, 2023
2 min
Radiant: Delivering Digital Transformation – Twice as Fast With Anima
Reading Time: 7 minutes Radiant's mission to reshape industries and revolutionize user experiences has found a like-minded ally in Anima—a dynamic collaboration that has already spanned two impactful years.
August 20, 2023
7 min
Figma Variable support: Speed up your development process with Anima for Figma
Reading Time: 2 minutes We are thrilled to introduce Anima's new support for Figma variables. This groundbreaking feature allows you to translate Figma variables into code, harmonizing your design and development process.
August 6, 2023
2 min
Anima now supports Figma’s ‘Min/Max’ & ‘Wrap’ features
Reading Time: 2 minutes Figma added ‘Min/Max’ and ‘Wrap’ to its Auto Layout options, closely matching how developers structure their code. Anima’s CodeGen AI now supports these options, resulting in cleaner, more efficient CSS.
July 20, 2023
2 min
Figma Styles now automatically generated as CSS variables
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima's CodeGen AI now converts Figma styles into CSS variables, resulting in more efficient, reusable code.
July 13, 2023
2 min
Announcing Anima’s plugin for Figma Dev Mode, live from Config
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can get Anima’s code - React / HTML - inside Figma’s Dev Mode via our integrated Code Gen plugin.
June 21, 2023
4 min
Anima’s Design System Automation is now available to all
Reading Time: 2 minutes Automate syncing between your coded component library and Figma for a single source of truth between design and development.
June 5, 2023
2 min
Generate responsive React code from any Figma design
Reading Time: < 1 minute Simply define how you want your design to look for different screen sizes in Figma, and Anima will automatically generate code that adapts to each one.
May 24, 2023
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AI Revolution: The Future of Designers and Developers
Reading Time: 5 minutes The AI Genie is Out of the Bottle. In this article, Avishay Cohen, Anima's CEO, shares his take on the future of design and development considering recent advances in AI and what’s around the corner.
May 18, 2023
5 min
Convert Figma variants into interactive React components in one click
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima’s code generator now supports Figma variants and variant transitions, producing stateful, interactive React components in a click—right from Figma.
May 11, 2023
2 min
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Unleash the power of Material UI with Anima
Yarden Katz
September 15, 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re excited to introduce Anima’s latest feature: the ability to transform any Figma design into clean, functional code using Material UI (MUI). This powerful capability helps developers quickly convert any Figma file—whether it’s well-structured or not—into high-quality MUI code.
Best IDEs for Frontend Development in 2024: Features, Pros, Cons, and Pricing
Myriam Cohen
September 9, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Selecting the right Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is pivotal in boosting productivity and optimizing the development process. Understanding the capabilities of different IDEs for frontend development is essential. Below, we explore the best IDEs for 2024, including their key features, strengths, weaknesses, pricing, and a special focus on their enterprise capabilities.
Anima App VS Anima AI – Anima App does not create virtual companions but can help you in many other ways
Myriam Cohen
September 8, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima App VS Anima AI. Are you looking for virtual love or for AI powered design-to-code?
What is Semantic HTML? Key Differences from HTML and Why It’s Important for Frontend Developers
Myriam Cohen
September 8, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Semantic HTML is a way of tagging some HTML tags to add more semantic meaning to the content, instead of simple "div" soup structure. This approach also makes websites easier to navigate, better for SEO, and simpler to maintain. In this article, we’ll cover what semantic HTML is, how it differs from regular HTML, and why it’s so important for frontend developers.
Transform any Figma design into high-quality MUI or AntD code with Anima
Moez Bouaggad
September 4, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Generate clean and functional code from any Figma file, no matter how it’s structured or which components it uses. Whether your design is well organized or a bit chaotic, if it uses standard components or none at all, Anima takes it all and translates it into high-quality MUI or Ant Design code.
New Feature Alert: Enhance Your Enterprise Security with Single Sign-On (SSO) Now Available in Anima’s Enterprise Plan
Orit Golowinski
August 6, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Announcing the launch of Single Sign-On (SSO) support as part of our Enterprise Plan! This new feature is designed to enhance security, streamline access, and simplify user management for organizations of all sizes. With support for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol, we are taking authentication to the next level.
Minimizing LLM latency in code generation
Ofer LaOr
August 1, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Discover how Frontier optimizes front-end code generation with advanced LLM techniques. Explore our solutions for balancing speed and quality, handling code isolation, overcoming browser limitations, and implementing micro-caching for efficient performance.
Introducing Frontier’s New Feature: Code Injection
Bruno Macabeus
July 25, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes This feature enhances your ability to seamlessly integrate generated code from Figma into your existing projects, saving time and reducing the need for manual copy-pasting.
Convert Figma to React & Tailwind Automatically in VSCode
Yarden Katz
July 10, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Frontier seamlessly transforms Figma files into React code, perfectly integrating with your existing Tailwind configurations. Frontier meets you where you work, in VS Code.
Guard rails for LLMs
Ofer LaOr
July 4, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes The conclusion is that you cannot ignore hallucinations. They are an inherent part of LLMs and require dedicated code to overcome. In our case, we provide the user with a way to provide even more context to the LLM, in which case we explicitly ask it to be more creative in its responses. This is an opt-in solution for users and often generates better placeholder code for components based on existing usage patterns.
Pluggable design system – Figma to your design system code
Ofer LaOr
July 2, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes When we created Frontier, we didn’t want to stick to just one coding design system. MUI, for example, is a very popular React Design System, but it’s one of many design systems that are rising and falling. Ant Design is still extremely popular, as is the TailwindCSS library. We’re seeing the rapid rise of Radix based component libraries like ShadCN as are Chakra and NextUI.
Does Frontier support NextJS?
Ofer LaOr
June 21, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Short answer: Yes!
Frontier will generate client components by default, when it detects NextJS. This is done by adding the ‘use-client’ statement at the beginning of the component declaration.
Generative code: how Frontier solves the LLM Security and Privacy issues
Ofer LaOr
June 5, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes AI and LLM code generation typically suffer from Privacy and Security issues, particularly with Enterprise users. Frontier is a VSCode that generates code through LLMs, which uses local AI models in order to firewall the user's data and codebase from being exposed to the LLM. This unique approach isolates the codebase and ensures compliance and inter-developer cooperation without compromising the security of the code repo.
Joining a New Project? Code Smarter and Faster from Your First Day
Yarden Katz
June 4, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Frontier, our innovative coding assistant, is designed to seamlessly integrate newcomers into the development process, making the transition smooth and efficient.
LLMs Don’t Get Front-end Code
Ofer LaOr
May 28, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Ofer's piece delves into the evolving role of AI in front-end development, debunking myths about replacing human developers. Share your thoughts with us too!
Introducing: Frontier, the future of front-end by Anima
Avishay Cohen
May 16, 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutes Frontier is the first AI coding assistant tailored for Front-end development.
It quickly analyzes your entire codebase, mapping your design system, frameworks, conventions, and components locally for maximum security. Using Anima’s advanced design-to-code engine, turn design into React, using your existing components.
Figma to HTML email: Converting designs to HTML email templates with inline CSS
Haim Ben Chimol
April 25, 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutes With Anima’s Figma plugin, you can convert your flex layouts directly into HTML email templates. We’ll do all the hard work of converting those into table layouts with inline CSS. You design freely in Figma, and we’ll do the heavy lifting of translating your vision into adaptive, pixel-perfect emails.
Breakpoints with Anima: From Figma design to Responsive Website
Myriam Cohen
April 15, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima easily converts Figma designs into responsive HTML and CSS code, by letting users set breakpoints in a Figma project.
Figma to HTML: How to export a Figma design into HTML
Myriam Cohen
April 3, 2024
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can export a complete HTML code package or get individual component code from your Figma design. See how to convert Figma to HTML here!
Figma to React: How to get clean React code in Figma
Nick Meyer
April 1, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima instantly converts Figma components into React components inside Figma. Here’s a step-by-step guide.
Anima’s VSCode extension: Figma to React is now in your favorite IDE
Avishay Cohen
March 19, 2024
Reading Time: 2 minutes A big step toward becoming developers’ sidekick is Anima’s new VSCode extension, now available in beta. With the first beta, you’ll be able to turn Figma into code right inside Visual Studio Code.
Meet the People Behind the Product: An Inside Look at Anima’s Dynamic Team
Yael Barnett
March 6, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima, a seven year old thriving startup making waves in the world of design to code, has been turning heads not just for its groundbreaking product but also for the small but extraordinary team driving its success. In this article, we delve into the personalities and passions of the people behind Anima, discovering how this tight-knit group carries diverse worlds on their journey to success.
GenAI Figma to Code: 6 Examples of how to use Anima’s new AI Code Customization
Myriam Cohen
February 20, 2024
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anima's latest innovation, GenAI code personalization within Figma, is game-changing for front-end developers. This feature introduces a layer of customization that speaks directly to the developer's style and technical requirements. Let’s see how Anima’s GenAI helps you add code conventions, styles, behaviors, and animations.
Introducing Anima GenAI Code Personalization – Prompt in Figma to Customize Your Code
Michal Cohen
January 30, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, we’re thrilled to launch our GenAI code personalization!
A whole new level of design to code workflow. If you ask 1000 developers, you’ll get 1000 different sets of tech stacks, coding styles and conventions. One constant feedback we get about Anima’s generated code, is that will never look the same as if they had been written it themselves.
Enhancing ReactJS Code Generation with LLMs
Or Arbel
January 8, 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes Explore the evolution of code generation at Anima, where six years of experience meets the latest in LLMs and generative AI. Dive into the complexities of front-end development, from HTML and CSS to responsive behavior, interactivity, and beyond.
Interview with Ofer, Anima’s Newly Appointed VP of R&D
Avishay Cohen
December 17, 2023
Reading Time: 6 minutes Anima recently welcomed Ofer as its new Vice President of Research and Development. With our focus on AI and GenAI, and Ofer's rich experience at Wix, we believe his perspectives are incredibly valuable to our community. We recently sat down with him for a conversation, and we're thrilled to share some highlights with you.
Convert any Figma design into React with Styled Components
Myriam Cohen
November 5, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima will turn any Figma design into React code with Typescript or Javascript, and Styled Components.
Introducing Generative AI in Design-to-Code at Anima
Avishay Cohen
October 24, 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima with GenAI and multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) are both groundbreaking innovations, but they serve different niches in the technological landscape.
How to export Figma to Vue
Myriam Cohen
October 16, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re trying to convert Figma to Vue without writing the code from scratch, this article is for you. We’ll show you how to export your Figma designs as Vue in a few easy steps using Anima.
Anima will turn each design property into Vue code (Vue2 and Vue3) with Typescript or Javascript.
How to export Tailwind CSS from Figma
Myriam Cohen
September 27, 2023
Reading Time: 3 minutes This article will show you how to seamlessly export Figma designs into Tailwind CSS using Anima.
Anima will map your design properties to Tailwind's base styles. Design attributes, such as colors, spacing, and typography, will be translated into concise Tailwind classes.
The future of design-dev alignment and methodology
Avishay Cohen
September 11, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes Although the concepts of product design and development have become increasingly similar, we still have two sources of truth — Design and Code. Anima is here to automate design-to-code with AI, freeing developers and designers to create and build digital products faster.
Introducing Tailwind CSS Support in Anima
Yarden Katz
September 5, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes We're thrilled to announce that Tailwind CSS support is live! Anima will map your design properties to Tailwind's base styles. Design attributes, such as colors, spacing, and typography, will be translated into concise Tailwind classes.
Introducing HTML Support in Figma’s Dev Mode with Anima
Yarden Katz
August 24, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes Build in Figma, and Anima will translate your designs into HTML. Copy paste, export or open in Codesandbox, right from Figma's Dev Mode.
Radiant: Delivering Digital Transformation – Twice as Fast With Anima
Avishay Cohen
August 20, 2023
Reading Time: 7 minutes Radiant's mission to reshape industries and revolutionize user experiences has found a like-minded ally in Anima—a dynamic collaboration that has already spanned two impactful years.
Figma Variable support: Speed up your development process with Anima for Figma
Yarden Katz
August 6, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes We are thrilled to introduce Anima's new support for Figma variables. This groundbreaking feature allows you to translate Figma variables into code, harmonizing your design and development process.
Anima now supports Figma’s ‘Min/Max’ & ‘Wrap’ features
Yarden Katz
July 20, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes Figma added ‘Min/Max’ and ‘Wrap’ to its Auto Layout options, closely matching how developers structure their code. Anima’s CodeGen AI now supports these options, resulting in cleaner, more efficient CSS.
Figma Styles now automatically generated as CSS variables
Yarden Katz
July 13, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima's CodeGen AI now converts Figma styles into CSS variables, resulting in more efficient, reusable code.
Announcing Anima’s plugin for Figma Dev Mode, live from Config
Avishay Cohen
June 21, 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutes You can get Anima’s code - React / HTML - inside Figma’s Dev Mode via our integrated Code Gen plugin.
Anima’s Design System Automation is now available to all
Yarden Katz
June 5, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes Automate syncing between your coded component library and Figma for a single source of truth between design and development.
Generate responsive React code from any Figma design
Nick Meyer
May 24, 2023
Reading Time: < 1 minute Simply define how you want your design to look for different screen sizes in Figma, and Anima will automatically generate code that adapts to each one.
AI Revolution: The Future of Designers and Developers
Avishay Cohen
May 18, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes The AI Genie is Out of the Bottle. In this article, Avishay Cohen, Anima's CEO, shares his take on the future of design and development considering recent advances in AI and what’s around the corner.
Convert Figma variants into interactive React components in one click
Avishay Cohen
May 11, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima’s code generator now supports Figma variants and variant transitions, producing stateful, interactive React components in a click—right from Figma.
Introducing Scooby: a free regression and fidelity testing tool
Federico Terzi
March 29, 2023
Reading Time: 4 minutes Scooby compares front-end code to its source design, ensuring better fidelity with fewer iterations.
How to sync your Storybook design system into Figma
Nikola Duza
March 16, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anima’s Design System Automation Solution establishes and maintains a single source of truth between design and code. Here’s how it works using MongoDB’s open source library.
How to turn MUI code components into a native Figma library
Satjaleen Madan
March 12, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anima’s Design System Automation platform turns any Storybook into a native Figma library—including variants, Auto Layout, and Figma Styles—then keeps it synced with the code. Here’s how I did it with components from MUI’s open-source design system.
Use live Storybook components in your Figma prototypes
Lucas Chae
February 21, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anima turns your Storybook code components into a native Figma library. Create interactive, responsive prototypes that are 1:1 with production, and share a public link in a few clicks.
Introducing: Design system automation
Avishay Cohen
February 7, 2023
Reading Time: 5 minutes Anima’s goal with design system automation is to help core product teams, designers and developers, build and maintain design-systems faster, with automation.
Introducing Codegen 2.0: reusable React components from Figma
Paul Boulescu
January 24, 2023
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week, Anima released a powerful code generation engine that turns Figma components into clean React components.
It maintains each component’s design, structure, layout, and style, and enables overrides in the code without altering the original design.
8 software demo tools for SaaS sales teams
Nick Meyer
January 4, 2023
Reading Time: 7 minutes These tools can help you build tailored, interactive software demos for every prospect fast—without a developer.
8 free React app hosting services
Nikola Duza
December 29, 2022
Reading Time: 10 minutes Wanna launch your React app fast and easy, with the option to scale? These serverless hosting solutions can help you go live in a jiffy, deploy updates on a dime, and slash the cost of delivering your app to users.
How to use AI-generated art in digital product design
Nick Meyer
December 1, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes Product designers can use AI to create more engaging, delightful digital experiences in a fraction of the time. Here's how.
Design systems: what they are, why you need one, and where to start
Lucas Chae
November 28, 2022
Reading Time: 7 minutes Whether you’re an early-stage startup or a multinational enterprise, a design system can help you build and scale your product quickly and cost-effectively. Here’s everything you need to know.
How I built a design system in Figma using MUI components
Satjaleen Madan
November 15, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine joining a startup as the sole designer and delivering a new product without a design system. It’s every product designer’s nightmare. I didn’t have the time or resources to create one from scratch, so I adapted someone else’s. 💡
Gartner discusses design-to-code and Anima’s benefits for enterprises
Avishay Cohen
November 9, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes In Gartner's assessment of the shifting design-to-code landscape for decision makers, Anima was front and center.
8 design system tools for any organization
Will Brett
November 3, 2022
Reading Time: 8 minutes Design systems create consistency, scalability, and efficiency across complex products and distributed teams. They’re also a drain on resources and a struggle to keep synced in dynamic organizations. These tools can help.
Will frontend development be automated?
Or Arbel
October 23, 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutes A number of tools automatically generate some or all of the code for your UI, but not all automation is the same. Here are the 6 levels of frontend automation, and what each means for designers, developers, and organizations.
What is the single source of truth: Storybook or Figma?
Or Arbel
October 3, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes This is a controversial question, and the answer is changing the way teams build products. Here's why we think Storybook is the single source of truth.
Figma vs Adobe XD vs Sketch: best design tool for 2022
Will Brett
September 23, 2022
Reading Time: 9 minutes Choosing the right design tool is hard. Here's everything you need to know about Figma, Adobe XD, and Sketch to choose the right tool for you, your team, or your organization.
Adobe is acquiring Figma: here’s what Figma users can expect
Avishay Cohen
September 20, 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutes Both companies just announced the $20B acquisition, and Figma users are wondering what to expect. Here’s what it actually means for Figma’s product, pricing, and community right now—and what it means for Anima users who work in Figma and Adobe XD.
Build a blog with Anima’s React code + Contentful’s headless CMS
Elizabeth Alcalá
August 7, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this tutorial, we'll build a completely functional blog by connecting Anima’s generated frontend code to Contentful's headless CMS for dynamic content.
How to build a Shopify store with a custom UI using Figma + Anima
Ignacio Díaz
August 2, 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutes We built a live eCommerce app in Figma using Anima's React Component Library. Then we turned it into a Shopify template and deployed it on Netlify using Anima's generated code. Here's how.
How technology solutions can partner with Anima to expand market reach
Hadas Avrech
July 12, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the Anima Partners Program. Join us to help our shared users create the perfect tech stacks and ship their products 10x faster!
Anima syncs Storybook and Figma for a single source of truth
Or Arbel
June 16, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes Anima turns your Storybook into a Figma library in a single click, seamlessly syncing design and code across your entire organization. Join the beta test today for early access, and start maintaining your design system automatically.
How to build a React app fast with Figma + Anima + Strapi.io
Ben Andrew
June 8, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes In this tutorial, we redesigned SVBs banking dashboard using Anima's open source Component Library for Figma, then connected our data using Strapi's headless CMS. Now you can launch fullstack React apps at lightning speed using the same approach.
Build MVPs faster with ready-to-use components in Figma
Imanuel Leibovich
June 7, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes Anima's bringing live UI components into Figma—from the same open-source React libraries developers use in production. Now you can ship new products faster, with minimal investment.
Figma to React: building and publishing an app to Netlify
Avishay Cohen
May 24, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes Follow these steps to build a React app with Figma + Anima, then launch it on Netlify using Anima's generated code. Give it a try, and go live in a fraction of the time.
Generate a shareable Figma library from Storybook in a single click
Yarden Katz
May 12, 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sign up to try our updated beta version! We want your input as we automate integration between your design library and your code.
Build React apps 10x faster in Figma
Avishay Cohen
May 1, 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima's bringing ready-to-use React components into Figma—from the same open source libraries developers use in production. Now you can launch better apps, faster, with fewer resources.
Automatic AI-Driven Icon Naming
Ben Andrew
April 25, 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima’s AI can now analyze an icon's visual characteristics and accurately name its class.
4 years with Anima: “what used to take 1 week now takes 1 day”
Natalie Ben Shaul
April 25, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes This freelancer uses Anima to showcase her ideas and speed up production for big clients. Here’s how.
Anima brings live React dashboard templates into Figma
Imanuel Leibovich
April 12, 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes Save serious development time by designing with ready-made, responsive dashboards built from the best open source components.
Bring Storybook components into Figma
Yarden Katz
March 28, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes Sign up to try our newly updated beta version! We want your input as we bring components from your code library into Figma.
Production-ready React js charts in Figma
Yarden Katz
March 21, 2022
Reading Time: 2 minutes Save dozens of development hours by using ready-made, reusable, and responsive data visualizations.
The culture at Anima App
Alicia Parra
February 14, 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutes There's stiff competition for tech companies to attract top talent. Here's how Anima draws, retains, and rewards the best of the best.
How to export Adobe XD to HTML
Natalie Ben Shaul
February 14, 2022
Reading Time: 4 minutes Generate HTML from your Adobe XD Design automatically with Anima
The world of product design in 2022
Natalie Ben Shaul
February 9, 2022
Reading Time: < 1 minute We're crowdsourcing tools, tips, and trends to help our beloved product design community thrive in a changing landscape.
No-code vs low-code vs pro-code vs developers
Avishay Cohen
January 17, 2022
Reading Time: 6 minutes With the rise of the no-code low-code movement, many developers are wondering what their future holds. Here's what you need to know.
Wireframes vs prototypes: different deliverables with a common objective
Nick Meyer
January 4, 2022
Reading Time: 5 minutes The complementary relationship between wireframes and prototypes is the key to developing user-aligned products—here’s what you need to know.
Why New Year resolutions suck – a designers guide
Natalie Ben Shaul
December 22, 2021
Reading Time: 8 minutes The top 4 reasons resolutions never stick by the experts and one resolution we know you’ll be sticking to
Fonts, facts and more: what is typography and why is it so important?
Natalie Ben Shaul
December 8, 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes Typography, the art of arranging letters and fonts in a legible and visually appealing way. Learn everything there is to know in this article
The 6 best free wireframe tools for designers 2021
Natalie Ben Shaul
December 2, 2021
Reading Time: 7 minutes Wrapping up 2021 and the top free wireframe tools on the market for the year
What are UX user flows and why are they important?
Nick Meyer
November 24, 2021
Reading Time: 5 minutes User flows will streamline your design process and set the stage for an intuitive user experience—here’s how they work
How Anima helped PhazeRo increase output by 30%
Natalie Ben Shaul
November 17, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes "We’re able to spend more time on usability testing and final touches rather than ensuring that the developers and designers are on the same page."
Code-based prototype testing: a product manager’s perspective
Limor Messika
November 9, 2021
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Nick Meyer
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Nick Meyer
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Nick Meyer
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Nick Meyer
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Nick Meyer
September 2, 2021
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Nick Meyer
August 24, 2021
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Natalie Ben Shaul
August 12, 2021
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Natalie Ben Shaul
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Amir Lellouche
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Sass users, you can now translate designs into Sass code using Anima
Anima introduces support of component variants
Amir Lellouche
July 15, 2021
Reading Time: 4 minutes Anima is now the first design-to-code tool that produces clean component-variants code from design
Why designer-developer handoff doesn’t work
Hadas Avrech
July 13, 2021
Reading Time: 4 minutes And how to get designers & developers to speak the same language (hint: use code)
How to export Adobe XD to React code
Natalie Ben Shaul
July 6, 2021
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Natalie Ben Shaul
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New feature announcement: Styleguide’s Find Usages
Or Arbel
June 29, 2021
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What is Product led growth?
Avishay Cohen
June 24, 2021
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5 design influencers you need to know
Kelly La Fleur
June 17, 2021
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Anima’s prototypes just got x10 faster
Natalie Ben Shaul
June 15, 2021
Reading Time: < 1 minute When sharing prototypes with your team, you can be sure that everyone will enjoy the benefit from pages loading instantly
How this UX designer turned static mockups into live prototypes
Natalie Ben Shaul
June 8, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes "I was having a hard time presenting static mock-ups to my stakeholders, that’s when I started to use Anima, it allows me to express what I intend to in my design”
5 essential Chrome extensions for developers
Natalie Ben Shaul
June 2, 2021
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Announcing Automatic Component Detection
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June 1, 2021
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Announcing: Vue.js beta release
Natalie Ben Shaul
May 25, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes You can now translate designs from Sketch, Adobe XD, and Figma into Vue.js
How Anima helped a design student land her dream internship
Natalie Ben Shaul
May 13, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Anima’s features helped me design high-fidelity prototypes, saved me a ton of time and let me create a real portfolio that I am proud of”.
From 6 months to 2 weeks: How this developer expedited a website using Anima
Natalie Ben Shaul
May 5, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes “Using Anima, I started building mid-March and released April 1st. It took 2 weeks, it was quite unbelievable”.
Announcing Smart Styleguide
Or Arbel
May 4, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Helping developers easily recognize the building blocks of designs, automatically generating them to CSS
“The transition from designer to developer should be automatic”
Natalie Ben Shaul
May 2, 2021
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How CrowdVision used Anima to deliver in record time
Natalie Ben Shaul
April 27, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes "We were in a position where we had to build products really quickly - Anima was an essential tool for us”
Introducing: Mobile Preview in Sketch
Kelly La Fleur
April 22, 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutes Scan a QR code and preview your designs on a mobile device to see how they look and feel on an actual device
What’s the difference between no-code & low-code?
Avishay Cohen
March 25, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Differentiating between the two approaches
Anima’s top 5 collaborative features
Kelly La Fleur
March 24, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Paving the way for a more integrated, handoff process
Introducing Auto-Flexbox
Avishay Cohen
March 23, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Export Design to HTML with Flexbox Layout, automatically.
Introducing: Anima Chrome extension for Figma
Kelly La Fleur
March 16, 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutes Save valuable time. Get React code directly from Figma in just one click.
How to export Sketch to React
Natalie Ben Shaul
March 11, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Translate Sketch designs into developer-friendly React code
Import a Sketch design file to Anima
Natalie Ben Shaul
March 9, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Developers, now you can quickly import Sketch designs directly to Anima and get code instantly — without ever installing Sketch
Experience React from Anima in CodeSandbox
Amir Lellouche
March 3, 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutes Access React code in CodeSandbox and navigate better
Introducing: Instant Preview in Figma
Kelly La Fleur
February 23, 2021
Reading Time: 2 minutes Anima for Figma is now 10x faster!
How to export Sketch to HTML
Natalie Ben Shaul
February 22, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Automatically generate HTML from a Sketch design
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Kelly La Fleur
February 10, 2021
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Anima — Design to code 2021 new features
Avishay Cohen
February 3, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes Download React components; group layers; convert to image, and code quality improvements
Turn your Figma designs into responsive prototypes
Michal Cohen
February 3, 2021
Reading Time: 3 minutes A step-by-step guide on how to create responsive prototypes with Figma and Anima
5 reasons why you should use Anima with Figma
Or Arbel
January 3, 2021
Reading Time: 4 minutes Breaking down how Anima gives the extra oomph to blow your colleagues' minds
How to convert design to React code
Avishay Cohen
December 10, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes Turn Sketch, Figma, or Adobe XD into developer-friendly React.js code with Anima
Solving the ‘production-ready’ code dilemma
Or Arbel
November 3, 2020
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Introducing the 1st design-to-development platform
Michal Cohen
October 27, 2020
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Rethinking the design-to-development process
Avishay Cohen
October 20, 2020
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Anima raises $2.5M in seed round
Avishay Cohen
September 16, 2020
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How to create a high-fidelity prototype and export HTML with Figma
Avishay Cohen
July 8, 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Design realistic prototypes faster, with Anima for Figma
Anima Brings Auto-Animate to Sketch!
Pablo Alberto
July 1, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes Create Automatic Transitions Between Sketch Artboards.
Create Responsive Adobe XD Prototypes Using Anima
Michal Cohen
June 23, 2020
Reading Time: 3 minutes Control how your designs look across different screen sizes
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Or Arbel
April 20, 2020
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Introducing Anima Fast Preview
Pablo Alberto
March 9, 2020
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How to Create a Carousel or Photo Gallery in Sketch
Pablo Alberto
February 3, 2020
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How to add background videos to your prototype
Michal Cohen
January 7, 2020
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How to create overlays in your Sketch prototypes
Michal Cohen
December 10, 2019
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Michal Cohen
November 28, 2019
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How to add breakpoints to your Sketch prototype
Michal Cohen
November 19, 2019
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Michal Cohen
November 14, 2019
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Michal Cohen
November 4, 2019
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Announcing Anima 4
Avishay Cohen
June 26, 2019
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How to create a radio button in Sketch with Anima
Avishay Cohen
March 18, 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutes Bring Life into Prototypes with Interactive Forms
How to create a Spotify-inspired prototype
Michal Cohen
March 4, 2019
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How to export Sketch to CSS animations code
Avishay Cohen
June 14, 2018
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Using Sketch to design animations
Avishay Cohen
January 22, 2018
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How to create a responsive landing page with Sketch
Avishay Cohen
June 27, 2017
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Avishay Cohen
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