We got tired of the same broken handoff.
Every team we worked with was solving the same problem by hand, drawing it in Figma and rebuilding it in code, watching the two drift apart again within a week. DesignVerse exists to close that gap for good.
Why we started this in 2024.
Andrei Manolache and Sofia Dragomir spent years maintaining design systems at product companies and watching engineers rebuild components that already existed in Figma. The process was always the same: designers annotated the specs, engineers read them and rebuilt from scratch, tokens drifted on both sides, and nobody was sure which source of truth was correct.
In 2024, they started DesignVerse to make design tokens the single source of truth for both design and code. The idea was straightforward: if the token file is the authority, the generated component should be a mechanical consequence of that file, not a hand interpretation of it.
We are still bootstrapped and working directly with early-access teams to get the details right. We are not trying to replace design tools or IDEs. We are making the gap between them disappear.
Three people building the tool we always wanted.
Years spent building design system architecture and frontend infrastructure for software products. Has built and maintained token pipelines across multiple codebases, from small component libraries to full design systems. Co-founded DesignVerse to make that process automatic.
Background in code generation pipelines and token transformation tooling. Comes from compiler and distributed systems work applied to multi-target code output. Deep experience with AST manipulation and the tricky edge cases in token alias resolution. Leads the generation engine and API at DesignVerse.
Spent years building and maintaining design systems for software products, from token architecture to component documentation. Has seen most of the ways a design system breaks down when it meets production code. At DesignVerse, he keeps the product grounded in what design teams actually run into, not hypothetical workflows.
Three things that shape how we build.
Design and code are one source of truth.
Not two files that reference each other. Not a Figma file plus a Storybook that someone tries to keep in sync. One token graph that feeds both the design tool and the code output, with no interpretation step in between.
Precision over approximation.
Generated code should be production-ready, not a starting point that engineers then have to fix. If the token says 16px, the component uses 16px. If the variant says disabled, the component uses the disabled token, not a guess. The output should be correct enough to go straight into a PR.
Honest tooling, no black boxes.
The output DesignVerse generates is readable code that your team owns. You can read it, modify it, and check it in. We do not lock you into a runtime or a proprietary format. If you ever decide to stop using DesignVerse, the code you generated still works.
Questions, partnerships, or early access?
We read every message that comes to [email protected]. If you are working on a design system and want to talk through whether DesignVerse fits, we are happy to get on a call.