BackThis Austrian AI Startup Solved Their UI Issues And Saved 80% of Development Time with Locofy.ai
With AI-backed features such as Design Optimiser & Auto-Components, the team at Spindoctor felt like Locofy.ai was speaking their language and enabling them to move at breakneck speed. These features coupled with the intuitive experience accelerated the entire design-to-code process for Spindoctor and allowed them to focus more on user experiences and complex functionalities.
Customer Overview
Spindoctor, a product by Sost, is an advanced tool that analyses the sentiment of news or blog titles, providing you with access to an AI-powered live audience rating of your headlines. Leveraging OpenAI's APIs, Spindoctor rapidly determines whether a title conveys a positive, neutral, or negative sentiment, empowering content creators, journalists, and media professionals to understand how their headlines are likely to be perceived by readers.
Before adopting Locofy.ai, Spindoctor faced challenges in streamlining their design to development workflow & minimising the inconsistencies between the design and the final product.
Michael Sommer, the co-founder of Sost, took over development while his co-founder Pirmin Steiner was responsible for branding and UI. Michael aimed to ensure the accurate implementation of his pixel-perfect designs in the development and wanted to rapidly build an MVP with high-quality code.
In their previous ventures and experiences, the design to development workflow wasn’t so good, underscoring the need for a more efficient solution like Locofy.ai.
Spindoctor was looking to find a solution that will allow them to go from Figma designs to responsive, high-quality React code, and upon a quick Google search, they discovered Locofy.ai.
By incorporating Locofy.ai into their workflow, Spindoctor saved approximately 80% of development time, resulting in improved efficiency and productivity. The quality of code generated by Locofy.ai was rated highly by the CEO, as the initial conversion minimised the need for manual adjustments during quality assurance (QA) and eliminated extensive font feature checks.
Locofy.ai streamlined the design-to-development process and improved collaboration between designers and developers. The seamless integration with Figma and real-time visualisation of their designs powered by React code enabled smoother communication between the teams, ensuring accurate translation of design intent into code.
As a result, designers gained more confidence in the output, and developers worked more efficiently with precise design specifications.
Locofy is the perfect tool to bridge the gap between designers and developers. It feels very natural, and I like that you can see the results of the conversion in React right away. It gives you a good feeling. I highly recommend it to scale startups and bootstrappers alike.
The Design Optimizer feature empowers users to apply the best practices, resulting in clean code for their designs. Spindoctor benefited from this feature as it allowed them to easily make adjustments to their designs, ensuring accurate results during the code generation process.
Locofy.ai's Auto Components feature, powered by LocoAI, automatically detects components in the design and suggests creating them as functional React components. This enabled Spindoctor to have reusable components in their exported code, saving them valuable time and effort.
The live previews feature provides immediate feedback on how the designs would render in the browser, boosting productivity and reducing the need for extensive manual checks and adjustments for Spindoctor. These features collectively made the development process smoother and more efficient, benefiting Spindoctor in its product creation journey.
With the help of Locofy.ai, Spindoctor, a product by Sost has harnessed the tool's features to develop an AI-powered product that provides a positive, neutral, or negative sentiment analysis for news or blog post titles.
Accelerating Frontend Development
Individuals and startups like Spindoctor are leveraging the power of Locofy.ai to seamlessly transform designs into high-quality, functional frontend code. Available as a plugin on popular design tools such as Figma and Adobe XD, Locofy.ai simplifies the process of building fully functional and responsive applications.
Moreover, Locofy.ai in Figma Dev Mode empowers developers to access the code behind Figma elements, customise and generate code for their designs, and download it effortlessly. The plugin provides live previews and supports various frameworks, streamlining the development process and enhancing efficiency for users.
