AI Design Workflows · For Norwegian teams

Vibe Coding vs Vibe Design: When Each One Wins

Dhairya Purohit

Runs Ekyon and co-founded Contemy. Builds dMaya.

Published April 25, 2026

If you have been following AI tools, you have heard of vibe coding. There is a parallel movement that does not get as much airtime: vibe design. Same prompt, different output. One hands you code. The other hands you a design. For anyone who has to get a visual approved before someone starts shipping, that is the whole ball game.

What is vibe coding?

Term coined by Andrej Karpathy. Tools: Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, Bolt.new, Replit. Output is always code. On 20-screen projects, the AI makes different visual decisions on each screen.

What is vibe design?

Vibe design takes the same input and produces a visual instead of code. Tools: dMaya, Google Stitch, Figma AI. Code comes later as an export.

Why the distinction matters

In professional workflows, design comes before development. Vibe coding skips that step. Vibe design preserves the review step but compresses it to minutes instead of weeks.

Use both together: design first, code second

Start in dMaya. Describe the project. Generate the design. Iterate with your team. Share preview links. Once approved, export HTML and hand off to Cursor, Claude Code, or whichever coding agent your team uses.

See how dMaya compares to direct AI design competitors: Google Stitch vs dMaya, Claude Design vs dMaya, or the design-to-code workflow without a plugin.

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