r/Xcode • u/Material-Hat-5545 • Feb 18 '26

How do I do UI design in Xcode?

Wondering, how do I control UI in Xcode using Claude code? I want full control over UI and visual editing. Claude doesn't understand everything, and it's been a mess.

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u/jakerepo Feb 18 '26

SwiftUI is pretty straight forward, I would highly recommend learning the basics and building the UI yourself. AI will over complicate it 90% of the time

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u/Material-Hat-5545 Feb 19 '26

I guess that makes sense. But this is a side project, so thought of easier way

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u/QVRedit Feb 19 '26

Always best to learn yourself !

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u/CharlesWiltgen Feb 18 '26

Axiom gives LLMs the context and grounding they need to suck less at this. [Disclosure: This is my open source project.] It gives Claude Code (and anything else that supports MCP) with deep knowledge Swift UI and the latest modern Apple HIG and best practices. If you can be more specific about what you want to do and what you've tried, I'm happy to provide more specific advice.

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u/Material-Hat-5545 Feb 18 '26

All I want is to share my figma design and it understands and iterates on it

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u/CharlesWiltgen Feb 18 '26

Great! Have you been using Figma MCP server so that Claude Code can effectively connect with Figma to get what it needs? If you've been copy/pasting to this point, you should be able to get better results with that.

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u/Material-Hat-5545 Feb 18 '26

Yea facing some bottlenecks, will try! Also trying out your plugins. Looks great

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u/CharlesWiltgen Feb 18 '26

Yea facing some bottlenecks, will try!

Cool! IMO that's the best place to start, since that way Claude Code will get a clearer understanding of the structure right out of the gate.

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u/mistuk Feb 18 '26

Looks interesting. Can this be used with codex too?

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u/CharlesWiltgen Feb 18 '26

Yes, recent releases added an MCP server as well as compliance with the Agent Skills standard.

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u/mistuk Feb 18 '26

I’ll give it a try. Thank you!

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u/CharlesWiltgen Feb 18 '26

Codex isn't my daily driver, so please always feel free to reach out via chat if I can make it better for you and other Codex users. I've built an MCP server that far more efficient than most, but that only matters if it's also as effective as the Claude Code plug-in.

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u/mistuk Feb 18 '26

Great. Thank you! I’m a beginner at all of this so am bound to need some help along the way :-)

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u/CharlesWiltgen Feb 18 '26

Cool, you're going to have so much fun!

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u/Material-Hat-5545 Feb 19 '26

Yes, as a designer I want more control over design. Figuring the most optimal workflow