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Uizard is an AI-powered UI/UX design tool that lets people create app and website mockups from text prompts, screenshots, or hand-drawn sketches, with the stated goal of making product design accessible to non-designers. Founded in 2017 as a machine learning research project in Copenhagen, Denmark, and formally incorporated in 2018, the company is best known for "Autodesigner," a generative feature it marketed as the world's first AI UI generator. Uizard grew out of the academic "pix2code" work by co-founder and CEO Tony Beltramelli, which used deep learning to generate interface code from a screenshot. In May 2024, Uizard was acquired by Miro, the online collaborative whiteboard company, for undisclosed terms, and now operates as Uizard by Miro.
Uizard traces its origins to pix2code, a personal research project that Beltramelli, then an engineer, pursued on weekends in 2017 while holding a full-time job. The project trained a neural network to take a screenshot of a graphical user interface and output the code needed to reproduce it. Beltramelli published the work as a paper, "pix2code: Generating Code from a Graphical User Interface Screenshot" (arXiv:1705.07962, 2017), which was later presented at the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS) in 2018. The reported model reached over 77% accuracy across three target platforms: Android XML layouts, iOS Storyboards, and HTML/CSS web interfaces. Beltramelli open-sourced the code on GitHub, where it drew significant attention, and he framed the goal as bridging the gap between designers and front-end developers by removing repetitive implementation work rather than replacing either role. He has said the idea was partly inspired by self-driving car research, which used neural networks to interpret visual input.
In 2018, Beltramelli connected with three co-founders who shared the pix2code vision, and the team formalized the company after a trip to San Francisco and a working session in a Mountain View garage. The four founders are:
| Founder | Role |
|---|---|
| Tony Beltramelli | Co-founder and CEO |
| Henrik Haugbølle | Co-founder and CTO |
| Ioannis Sintos | Co-founder and CIO |
| Florian van Schreven | Co-founder and COO |
Beltramelli, who has been named to a Forbes 30 Under 30 list, led the company's AI and product direction. The startup was headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, and built an international team. Because high-quality training data for generating interfaces was scarce in the early days, the team wrote custom software to produce synthetic data and train its models before it had access to real-world usage data.
Uizard raised roughly $18.6 million in total across several early-stage rounds before its acquisition. The company's first outside capital came from a small pre-seed/seed raise of about $800,000 in 2018, led by LDV Capital with participation from byFounders, The Nordic Web Ventures, 7percent Ventures, New York Venture Partners, and several angels. In September 2019, Uizard raised a $2.8 million seed round led by the Nordic venture firm byFounders, with LDV Capital, av8 Ventures, New York Venture Partners, and angel investors participating.
The company's largest round was a $15 million Series A announced on 18 August 2021, led by Insight Partners. Participants included Mariano Suarez-Battan (co-founder and CEO of Mural) and existing backers byFounders, LDV Capital, and av8 Ventures. At the time of the Series A, Uizard reported more than 170,000 accounts created and over 13,000 monthly active users, and said it would use the funding to grow its marketing and commercial teams and to hire across Europe.
| Round | Date | Amount | Lead investor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed (pre-seed) | 2018 | ~$0.8M | LDV Capital |
| Seed | September 2019 | $2.8M | byFounders |
| Series A | 18 August 2021 | $15M | Insight Partners |
On 27 May 2024, Uizard was acquired by Miro, the collaborative online whiteboard platform headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam. The deal was announced publicly in June 2024 (reported by outlets such as Silicon Canals on 12 June 2024), and the financial terms were not disclosed. At the time of the acquisition, Uizard said it was used by more than 3 million professionals worldwide, including teams at Fortune 500 companies, and it had reached roughly $3.5 million in annual recurring revenue, the large majority of it from self-serve subscriptions rather than enterprise sales.
Miro positioned the acquisition as a move into AI-powered product design. Uizard remained available as a standalone product with no immediate changes to the day-to-day experience, and the companies said they would pursue deeper integrations over time. The product is now branded Uizard by Miro (the operating entity has been referred to as Uizard by Miro Labs). Beltramelli took on the role of Head of Product for AI at Miro following the acquisition. The acquisition coincided with the rollout of Autodesigner 2.0, a major update to Uizard's generative design engine.
Uizard is a browser-based design platform aimed at letting non-designers, as well as product managers, developers, and designers, produce low- and medium-fidelity mockups quickly. Its defining capabilities use AI to turn rough or non-visual inputs into editable designs.
Autodesigner is Uizard's flagship generative feature. Beltramelli described it as "ChatGPT for product design." Users type a plain-English description of an app or website, and Autodesigner generates a multi-screen, editable mockup in seconds, which can then be refined in Uizard's drag-and-drop editor. The feature was launched on 22 February 2023 and announced publicly in March 2023, with Uizard marketing it as the world's first AI UI generator. An Autodesigner 1.5 update followed in October 2023, adding the ability to generate individual screens, themes, and images from text prompts.
Autodesigner 2.0, released around June 2024, combined a conversational, ChatGPT-style interaction flow with the generative engine and editor. It let users describe targeted changes to a selected component and have the AI apply them, generate new visual themes to restyle a project instantly, and assemble clickable prototypes for testing. Uizard has said that a large majority of new interfaces created on the platform are generated with AI rather than built entirely by hand.
Two image-to-design features complement Autodesigner. Screenshot Scanner converts a static screenshot of an existing app or website into an editable Uizard design, letting users reuse or remix an existing interface. Wireframe (Sketch) Scanner uses computer vision to turn hand-drawn sketches or paper wireframes into digital, editable components and clickable prototypes, an idea that traces directly back to the pix2code research and was the company's original headline use case (sketch a layout in a meeting, then present a working prototype minutes later). Both scanners were upgraded alongside Autodesigner 2.0 to output higher-fidelity, editable assets.
Uizard also provides a library of design templates and UI components, theming tools, an AI-assisted design assistant, and standard prototyping features such as linking screens into interactive flows. The platform's overall emphasis is on speed and accessibility for rapid, low-fidelity prototyping rather than pixel-perfect production design, which positions it differently from heavier professional tools and from Figma's AI features.
Uizard's core differentiator is the application of deep learning and computer vision to interface design. The pix2code lineage established the company's approach of mapping visual or textual input to structured UI representations. Later generative features build on advances in generative AI and large language models, pairing natural-language understanding of a user's prompt with generation of layouts, components, and themes. The conversational interaction model introduced with Autodesigner 2.0 reflects the broader wave of chat-style generative tools that followed the popularization of ChatGPT.
Uizard attracted early attention in the design and developer communities, helped by the viral reception of the open-source pix2code release and coverage in outlets including Fast Company and TechCrunch. By the time of its Series A in 2021 the company reported tens of thousands of monthly active users, and by the 2024 acquisition it reported more than 3 million users and around $3.5 million in ARR. The company has cited usage by teams at large enterprises in its marketing. Independent reviews and walkthroughs (for example on the LogRocket blog) have generally described Uizard as fast and approachable for generating low-fidelity prototypes and early concepts, while noting that it is aimed more at speed and ideation than at detailed, production-grade design.