ArcWave Launches Sketch-to-Code Designer: Real-Time UI Prototyping Gets Generative AI

Design · 4 min read

ArcWave, a startup focused on bridging design and engineering workflows, today launched Sketch-to-Code Designer, a new product that converts scanned or hand-drawn UI sketches into functioning React components with CSS-in-JS and accessible markup.

The product uses a multimodal pipeline combining vision transformers for layout detection and a codex-style generator trained on open-source component libraries. Designers can upload images, refine parsed layouts, and export clean, componentized code ready for integration into existing design systems.

ArcWave emphasizes that the tool is intended to reduce repetitive front-end work, not replace engineers or designers. It includes an enforcement layer for design tokens and accessibility rules so exported code adheres to a team’s existing visual language and semantic standards.

Early customers report a 3x speedup on low-fidelity-to-high-fidelity iteration cycles. ArcWave also announced a $12 million Series A to scale operations and build integrations with Figma, Storybook, and major CI/CD pipelines.