Sketch-to-Code standard emerges as consortium publishes UI-XML schema and conversion toolkit

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A consortium of design-tool vendors, framework authors, and open-source contributors unveiled a UI-XML schema and an accompanying Sketch-to-Code conversion toolkit. The standard specifies how layers, constraints, tokens, and interactions should be serialized to enable consistent translation into front-end code.

The toolkit provides adapters for popular frameworks like React, Svelte, and Flutter and includes round-trip examples to ensure edits in code can be mapped back to design files. Early adopters say the standard reduces ambiguity in design handoffs and simplifies automation around code export.

Members of the consortium emphasized extensibility: the schema supports custom namespaces for vendor-specific features and includes a validation suite to help teams catch mismatches between design intent and generated code. The project is open-source and seeking wider community feedback.