Large Design Models : the future of frontend development

In today’s digital age, with nearly 2 billion websites, captivating user interfaces (UI)and user experiences (UX) are essential for success. Yet, many businesses struggle to transform great designs into high-quality products, hindered by developer shortages and inefficient workflows. This keynote explores how Large Design Models (LDMs) can revolutionize frontend development, empowering teams to streamline the design-to-code process, enhance productivity, and drive better results. Learn how LDMs and LLMs together can help bridge the gap, improving time-to-market and delivering superior UI/UX at scale.

September 18, 2024
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8:00 pm
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9:00 pm
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Honey Mittal
Honey Mittal
Cofounder & CEO, Locofy.ai

Honey is the Co-Founder & CEO of Locofy.ai, a design-devtool that accelerates product development by converting Figma designs into frontend code using AI, powered by its foundational Design Models. Prior to Locofy.ai, he was the Chief Product Officer at Homage, Finaccel and Wego where he and his teams built global award winning products and eventually started Locofy.ai to build tools to accelerate builders. Locofy.ai is a Singapore HQ startup that has raised $7.5M and won #1 awards in 8 categories on Product Hunt and was awarded as the IDC Top Innovator 2024 and Gartner Cool Vendor in Software Engineering 2023.

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