If you’re a designer in the modern age, you’ve likely been there. You design something — every spacing decision, every color, every state, all carefully considered — and then it gets handed off to be rebuilt in code. Maybe by you. Maybe by someone else. But somewhere in that handoff — inevitably — something quietly disappears. Or breaks. That’s the problem Scamp is built to fix.
It’s a local-first design tool where every rectangle you draw saves as a real TSX file. And every style you set saves as a real CSS Modules file. The canvas and the codebase are the same thing. No cloud. No account. Just a folder. And all the files that you need.
The inspiration…?
I have spent over ten years working as both a UX designer and a developer. For most of that time I lived in the gap between the two disciplines — designing in Figma, then either rebuilding it myself in code or watching someone else rebuild it and lose something in the process.
The handoff is where weeks of careful decisions quietly disappear. Not because developers don’t care. Because the tools assume designers and developers work in different files, and that assumption creates a translation problem that no amount of better tooling can fully solve.
Like everything, Scamp is still a work in progress but v1.0.0 is downloadable right now. It’s open source under the Business Source License, for macOS (Apple Silicon), Windows, and Linux.
To try it yourself, download Scamp. Or star the repo to keep track of the progress.
