Visily 2.0 — From ideas to prototypes in a flash, no design skills needed

Hey Product Hunters! I’m Buu, founder of Visily. Visily 2.0 is by far our biggest release and I’m pumped to share this with the world.

⭐ A QUICK PRIMER ON VISILY ⭐

Visily’s aim is to allow anyone to create beautiful wireframes and prototypes of their app UX—quickly and with virtually no learning curve. We built Visily for those who ever: 😬 Stared at a blank canvas, full of ideas and yet not knowing where to start 😬 Attempted to use a heavy-duty design tool, only to find the learning curve too steep 😬 Annotated screenshots in Powerpoint or Preview (and covered unwanted stuff with boxes!) If any of those resonate with you, Visily changes the game by letting you: 1️⃣ START DESIGNING FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES OF INSPIRATION: Visily uses AI to help you quickly create UI from an app screenshot, hand-drawn sketch, or more. 2️⃣ LEVERAGE UI PRESETS AND COMPONENTS: We’ve built thousands of UI templates & components, giving you a head start regardless of the type of application you are building. 3️⃣ TWEAK EXISTING APPS: Visily AI transforms UI screenshots into editable designs you can customize and improve. And it works well—so well, in fact, that Visily counts teams at Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Walmart, Home Depot, Xero, Dropbox, and more among our satisfied users!

⭐ ENTER VISILY 2.0 ⭐

During conversations with hundreds of founders, product managers, designers, and engineers over the last year, we heard about 2 key challenges they faced when building products: 😱 Designing app UX & UI from the ground up 😱 Working in teams across different tools and workflows We’ve launched Visily 2.0 to address those issues—here’s how: 🚀 FROM ZERO TO HERO To help you combat the “blank canvas syndrome,” we’re launching: ➡️ Text to Design AI (alpha): Generate app UX from a simple text prompt! The first batch of invites is now rolling out to users on our waitlist. ➡️ Enhanced Screenshot to Design AI: Screenshot to Design AI is one of Visily’s most powerful features: upload a UI screenshot and Visily will generate a fully editable design. In 2.0, we’ve made big improvements to the output quality and added the ability to convert multiple screenshots at once. ➡️ Design Theme Extractors: We’ve built tools such as “Image to Theme AI” and “URL to Theme AI”, to extract color palettes and fonts from any URL or image and apply them to your design. ➡️ More Components & Templates: We’ve added hundreds of beautifully crafted components & templates, along with an improved search experience to facilitate discoverability. 🚀 WORKING IN TEAMS ACROSS TOOLS & WORKFLOWS To help teams streamline the process from idea to implementation, Visily expands to cover more phases of the UX development process: ➡️ Wireflow Support: Now there's no need to switch between tools to design flowcharts and wireframes: Visily offers pre-built flowchart shapes, connectors, and sticky notes, allowing you to effortlessly create 'wireflows' that effectively showcase your UX. ➡️ Export to Figma: As teams ideate and iterate on their UX within Visily, they frequently need to transfer their work to a tool such as Figma for final polishing. To facilitate this workflow, we have developed a Figma plugin that enables you to seamlessly send your designs directly into Figma. ➡️ Better Sharing & Design Collaboration: We’ve enhanced the app UX to make it easy for teams to organize workspaces & canvases, invite teammates, manage permissions, and design together in real-time. We have so much more we’re excited to release in the coming months. Truly 2.0 marks a fresh start in how Visily supports cross-functional product development!

I am currently putting together a course on AI and design for LinkedIn Learning (follow me at https://linkedin.com/in/drewfalkman to hear about it when I release it). I am a long-time hunter and am very picky about what products I write reviews on. Visily is one of the products I will review, and HAD to include in my course. Why? Because: - there is an entire suite of AI tools baked in that include content generation, screenshot >> design, polish wireframes, sketch >> design, and theme generation (there are more in the works too!) - they work! I have used other products that don't work, but this one does. For example, the screenshot to design tool gives you two options: one that will be more broken into clean components, one that is more true to the actual design. - you can export your designs to not just PNGs and PDFs but to Figma. In my experience, having gone through dozens of these tools, Visily is one of the best to apply AI to generating design. Definitely recommend for designers looking to save time and menial work.

This is very cool and I’m very excited to try Text to Design. What LLM did you guys build on top of? Did you find it difficult to fine-tune for such a diverse set of use cases?

brillant, first the video is powerful, website design is good but little slow when you scroll, the product proposition is amazing, you deserve to be in top 3 of the day.

Congrats. But I have a question: I have been using Visily since spring, and my team has also been using it for a few months now. It’s great because it’s been free, but do you have any plans to introduce a paid plan in the future? If so, what would be the main differences compared to the current offering? 🤔

DISRUPTIVE! Feels like all of the barriers that block non-designers from creating a wireframe have been removed. Because of this tool all of the "I can't do wireframing because..." have suddenly become nonsense 🤭 Congratulations on the launch! You did amazing, team!

I tried it and used a template, but it caused Chrome to freeze, so I had to close it. Even I have an i5 12Gen with 16GB of RAM. 😥

I upvoted Visily last year on PH and then started using it. Amazing progress! The new feature "Export to figma" is gonna be a game-changer for our design workflow, I really love it. Kudos team 🎉

Nice launch! I just tried it out and was impressed. The feature to convert screenshots to mockups is amazing 🤯

This is great! Recommended to our design and marketing teams for putting together wireframes. Congrats!

I'm using Visily to work on a new concept. It's easy to start and create assets and mockups within minutes. I'm not a designer and don't work in a UX enviroment, but I could use the tool without tutorials or video support.

I’ve been a fan of Visily since you launched last year. It’s been an indispensable tool for our team. We just started using the annotation tools and flow chart shapes. Great stuff!

Visily changed product design for good. I use it every day, and anyone that I know that is in Product or Design has adopted it. Some companies should be nervous :)

I have been using Visily from the beginning, and it is amazing. We create an multi-country payroll platform, and even our payroll business is able to create screens on 'how they expect the screen to be used'. This is very helpfull for me to 'see their mind'. Together we create then the version for development! And every developer has access to view the full picture of screens. Visily has been an asset for us as a startup from the very start! Keep it up guys and girls!

I have been using Visily since the beginning and I can't believe somebody finally figured this out. Having been struggling with multiple wireframing tools before, Visily has given a product guy like me a tool to directly work with developers. It is very empowering. It is the first product I truly want to pay for. This is even before you guys get AI in! Hurry up!

Hey, congrats team! I’ve just tested making a few screens, very easy and simple. Keep up the good work! 🙌

Amazing tool for anyone who is looking to create high fidelity wireframes. Great product by Visily team.

Absolutely love their most recent addition to allow us designers to integrate figma with visily, really looking forward to more amazing feature additions and continued support from the visily team!

Congratulations on the Visily 2.0 release on Product Hunt! I must say, Visily has truly outdone itself with this update. The variety of templates available is remarkable, and they are incredibly user-friendly. Customizing them to create the desired interfaces has never been easier. But what really steals the show for me is the export to Figma feature. I've been eagerly awaiting this functionality since the first version, and I couldn't be more pleased with the efficiency it brings. The fact that all components and frames are maintained in the correct order is a game-changer. I believe this will make life much easier for designers working on those design files. Hats off to the entire team for their hard work and dedication. Kudos a hundred times over!

Visily is hands-down my favourite mockup and prototyping tool. It keeps getting better. Thanks for building such an awesome platform.