# Generative UI

> Generative UI is an interface produced by a model from a prompt — a whole screen, flow, or prototype generated rather than assembled by hand.

Generative UI means a model produces the interface itself — a screen, a flow, or a working prototype — from a prompt and whatever design system it was given. The useful version is grounded in your components; the useless version invents a new visual language every session.

**Generative UI is an interface produced by a model rather than assembled by hand: you describe a screen, a flow, or a whole prototype, and the tool builds it, usually as real code you can click through.** The category grew out of prompt-to-app tools and now covers everything from a single component to a multi-screen prototype with working state.

Three things separate a useful generative UI tool from a demo. First, grounding: does it read your design system, or invent one? [Claude Design](/tools/claude-design) ingests a system from a repository, design files, or uploads and reuses those colors, typography, and components on every later project. Second, editability: can you fix the output where it is wrong, by editing the canvas, the code, or both? Third, exit: [v0](/tools/v0) generates React and Tailwind you can sync to GitHub and deploy, which matters when the prototype is meant to become the product. [Claude Design vs Figma Make](/guides/comparisons/claude-design-vs-figma-make) compares two of the main options on exactly those axes.

Generative UI runs in the opposite direction from [design-to-code](/glossary/design-to-code), which starts from a design that already exists and translates it. In practice most teams use both: generate to explore, then translate the version everyone agreed on into the codebase. The [Claude Design guide](/guides/design/claude-design-guide) is the workflow version of that loop, and the [designer tools roundup](/guides/comparisons/best-ai-tools-for-designers-2026) covers who does which.

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_Source: https://agentscamp.com/glossary/generative-ui — Term on AgentsCamp._