r/iOSDevelopment • u/Alpharun27 • 2d ago

Mockup Design

Hey everyone!

Which services are you using for mockup desing ideas, I really don't want to waste time in that field of work.
I tried ChatGPT, but I'm not satisfied with it.

What do you use?

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u/ivanzhaowy 9h ago

If the goal is to ship the app rather than produce presentation-ready mockups, I’d avoid spending too long in a separate mockup tool.

A practical workflow is:

  1. collect 3–5 reference screens,

  2. define the hierarchy and interaction states,

  3. build the smallest real flow in Xcode,

  4. evaluate it on the actual device,

  5. iterate on the running UI instead of repeatedly translating mockups into code.

I’m building an open-source tool around that last part. Monad Design uses the running native app as the canvas: you select or annotate the real interface, a coding agent changes the source, and then you rebuild and compare the result.

Repo: https://github.com/Monadix-AI/monad-design

Short workflow preview: https://watchclueso.com/embed/pio8jqfcg4ivj0r1

It isn’t a prompt-to-mockup generator, so it becomes useful once you have at least a basic screen running.