What is v0? How I Use It to Design Beautiful No-Code & Coded Apps

How I Use v0 to Skip Weeks of Design Work and Still Build Amazing Apps

Let's be honest.

Most founders and devs wing their designs. They launch with spaghetti UIs, trash layout, and color schemes stolen from whatever SaaS they saw last week. The result? Confused users. High churn. Ugly products. You know it. I know it.

But I found a better way. It's called v0.

And no, I don't mean "design tool like Figma & Adobe" or "some cool AI that can one prompt your whole product", I mean a workflow. One that starts with a clear product idea and ends with a complete, beautiful, UX-obsessed UI in under 3 hours.

Start With the Problem, Not build me an Airbnb clone for X

Before I ever touch v0, I fire up ChatGPT or Claude. I write one thing:

"This is the idea: [describe problem]. I want users to be able to do [solution to their problem] identify features that are a must to have, good to have and can have later. Help me write a product requirements document."

What I get back is a PRD with features, goals, user types, basic flows.

Next prompt:

"Great. Now give me branding guidelines and a color scheme based on that PRD."

Boom. I now have:

A defined product vision
A list of core features
A color palette and typography system
A vibe

Next prompt:

"Excellent! Now give me an implementation plan to build this app using bubble or v0, or lovable, or Cursor." - You have so many options!

Enter v0 — Where It Gets Unfair

Now I open v0.dev and drop this line:

"Create a design system page for a product called X. It helps Y users do Z in a faster, easier way. Here's my PRD [insert PRD] please follow these brand guidelines and create a page called design-guidelines [insert guidelines]."

That's it.

v0 doesn't just throw you a homepage. It builds a full design system page - components, layouts, inputs, buttons, and all the foundational building blocks.

Now I prompt again:

"Design the full UI for the onboarding flow. Design the dashboard. Design the settings page."

I do this while sipping coffee.

From v0 to Build — Bubble or Code, Doesn't Matter

Here's the game-changer:

Most Bubble agencies start building straight into the editor. You get apps with clunky UX and half-baked visuals because no designer ever touched the product.

I don't do that.

Once I get my UI from v0, I recreate it screen-by-screen inside Bubble. Clean. Fast. Fully mapped to the PRD.

If I'm building a coded app (using Cursor or full-stack tools)? Same workflow. I pass the v0 screens into my dev flow. They're clean, consistent, and better than anything I could've made by brute force.

The old way? Took me 2-3 weeks of fiddling and UI hell.

This way? 2-3 hours.

And my clients get apps that actually look like someone gave a damn.

TL;DR: Here's the Workflow

Start in ChatGPT/Claude: Write the PRD.
Prompt branding guidelines: Get color + type.
Feed into v0: Generate a design system.
Prompt key screens: Get the full UI in hours.
Build: Replicate in Bubble or plug into your dev flow.

Why This Matters (More Than You Think)

Most no-code devs are stuck in the "builder" mindset.

They dive in too fast. No plan. No design. No strategy. And they wonder why their apps flop.

But when you lead with design, and use AI tools like v0 to supercharge your workflow, you build faster, better, and with way more polish than 99% of indie devs or agencies out there.

Your product doesn't just work.

It feels right.

And that's what keeps users around.

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