Sketch2Code: Hand-Drawn UI to HTML/CSS (Microsoft AI Lab)

Sketch2Code converts photographed whiteboard or paper wireframes into HTML/CSS layouts using computer vision and object detection.

Core Features

• Layout Detection: Identifies buttons, text fields, images.
• Semantic Mapping: Translates detected regions to HTML elements.
• Editable Export: Produces baseline UI code for refinement.

Design Use Cases

• Speeding concept-to-code transition in workshops.
• Documenting whiteboard sessions as functioning prototypes.

Integrations

• Web demo + open-source sample; output imported to any IDE.

Adoption Indicators

• Experimental showcase; influential in prompting later text-to-UI tools.

Best For

• Hackathons & rapid ideation sessions needing tangible code artifacts.

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