AI-native canvas
Describe what you want in plain English. Watch as Nokuva transforms your words into a fully structured layout on a real, editable canvas — not a code dump.
The premier AI-native design editor. Describe your vision, refine on a real canvas, build your design system, and convert to production-ready code — all in one place.
❯Now available. Free to start.
Features
A full visual editor with layers, frames, and an infinite canvas. AI that generates designs, not code dumps.
Describe what you want in plain English. Watch as Nokuva transforms your words into a fully structured layout on a real, editable canvas — not a code dump.
Full layer tree, frame-based artboards, inspect panel, pixel-level control. The Figma feel — but AI-native from the ground up.
Design tokens for colors, typography, spacing, shadows — all managed from a dedicated Theme Editor. Change a token and watch every element update instantly.
Not one model doing everything. Specialized agents for themes, layouts, specs, and code — each with focused context and better results.
WebSocket-powered live cursors, per-node updates, collaborative undo/redo, and presence detection. Real-time collaboration built on PostgreSQL.
Convert perfected designs to clean, tokenized code. No bloat from AI regeneration. No inconsistencies from prompt iteration.
The design software test
If it doesn't have these, it's a code generator with a preview window. A real design tool gives you:
How it works
Tell Nokuva what you want in plain English. Our AI understands context, design patterns, and intent.
❯A SaaS pricing page with three tiers, dark theme, gradient accents.
Watch as Nokuva transforms your words into a fully structured layout on a real canvas with components, spacing, typography, and color hierarchy.
Open the visual editor. Drag elements. Adjust spacing. Swap colors. Edit your layer tree. Every change here costs pennies. The same change in code costs dollars.
Organize reusable components, tokens, and styles into a cohesive design system. Colors, typography scales, spacing units, shadows — all from one theme editor.
Your perfected design converts to clean, production-ready code. No bloat from AI regeneration. Just intentional, tokenized design ready for engineering.
The cost argument
The prompt-to-code trap
You can't explore multiple directions without regenerating everything
AI generates designs on a real canvas
Every iteration burns AI tokens
You refine visually — cheap, fast iterations
There's no design system, so inconsistency compounds
A token system means consistency by default
You're editing code instead of refining design
You convert to clean, tokenized code once
That's not faster. That's technical debt on day one.
No regeneration bloat. No engineering waste. Just intentional design.
Fixing a spacing issue in design
30 seconds
Fixing the same issue in production
30 min – 3 hours
Traditional vs Nokuva
What you see on the canvas is exactly what developers get.
Traditional
Nokuva
Proprietary vectors
HTML VNode tree
AI as plugin
AI as foundation
Design then handoff
Design = code structure
Variable system
Full token hierarchy
WebSocket relay
PostgreSQL + WebSocket
Export and rebuild
Convert and integrate
Three eras of design tooling
Era 1 — 2000s
Photoshop, Sketch. Design as image manipulation — PNGs and PDFs that developers eyeballed and rebuilt from scratch. Every handoff was a translation layer. Expensive. Error-prone.
Era 2 — 2010s
Figma and web-based multiplayer tools. Design as real-time vectors, with inspect panels and handoff links developers interpreted. Better specs — but still a gap between design and code structure.
Era 3 — 2026+
Nokuva. Design as structured, code-aware documents — tokenized, production-mapped, the source of truth. AI generates from natural language, and the Virtual DOM means design = code structure.
The premier AI-native design editor is here. Design at the speed of thought.