Conveying Your UI Image to Developers

To convey your UI image to a developer, shaping the image in your head and showing it gets it across far better. Tell AI the requirements and the screens you want, make a design image, and use it as material to show — this way, a screen image that words alone can’t convey is shared concretely. That said, what you hand over is a design image (a reference); the implementation is done by the developer.

I’m Naohiro Hayashi, creator of Soreda!. I built a system UI AI myself and have run it. From that experience, I’ll lay out how to shape your UI image with AI and convey it to developers.

A UI image gets across better when you shape it and show it

A UI image you convey to a developer gets across better when you shape it and show it than when you explain it in words. With a concrete screen, your understanding aligns.

Words alone struggle to convey a screen image

Even if you say “make it a simple, easy-to-use screen,” the screen each person pictures differs. With words-only exchanges, the finished screen tends to come out “different from what I imagined.” A screen image is hard to convey with words alone.

A concrete screen image aligns understanding

With a concrete screen image, it’s easier to align on “with this arrangement,” “with this operation flow.” The developer can also grasp exactly what to build. Reducing gaps in understanding leads to preventing rework — and rework discovered after the system is half-built is exactly the kind of cost that a shared image up front helps you avoid.

Shaping and conveying your UI image with AI

To shape and convey your UI image with AI, you generate a design image from the requirements and the screens you want. Let’s go in order.

Tell AI the requirements and screens, and generate a screen image

Tell the system UI AI the requirements and the screens you want, and it generates a design image of the screen layout and operation flow. Just by telling it what functions and what screens, your material to show takes shape. If you want to start from organizing the requirements, that’s covered in How to Define System Requirements with AI.

Use the screen structure and layout as material to show

The generated screen structure and layout work as material to show the developer. Since you can show concretely “this kind of screen, with this operation flow,” your understanding aligns more easily than explaining in words alone. Especially when sharing a screen image at the quoting stage, you can head off a “this isn’t what I pictured” mismatch early.

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What lies beyond conveying it

Conveying a design image is a starting point. The actual system is built by the developer implementing it.

What you hand over is a design image (a reference); the developer implements

What you hand the developer is a design image (a reference). From it, the developer implements and turns it into a working system. Having a design image makes the conversation far smoother than explaining the screens from zero.

Implementation (coding) is separately required

Turning a design image into a working system requires implementation, such as coding, separately. What AI saves is the cost of producing “screen images,” not the implementation work itself. Designer-free applies to the stage of producing screen images; the implementation is handled by a developer. Detailed caveats are covered in How to Use AI-Generated UI (and Caveats).

FAQ

Q. Can’t I order without a screen image? A. You can order, but a concrete screen image prevents gaps in understanding and moves it faster. Just having material to show makes the conversation smoother.

Q. Can AI-generated UI be used in development as-is? A. No. What AI produces is a design image (a reference). Implementation is done by the developer through coding.

Q. Where do I start? A. First organize the requirements, then design the screens from them, and refine the image before approaching a developer. The flow is covered in How to Design System UI with AI.

Q. How much does it cost? A. System UI design is ticket-based, counted per run. See the official site for current details.

To convey your UI image to a developer, shaping it and showing it is the shorter path. Make a design image of the requirements and the screens you want with AI, and use it as material to show. But what you hand over is a reference; the implementation is done by the developer. Start by telling AI the screens you want and shaping material to show.

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