For designers
Ship the last mile of your design yourself
The handoff is where design intent leaks. ronda lets you make the pixel and copy changes on the real product, in plain English, and ship them as a pull request your engineers review.
The handoff problem
The last 5 percent rarely matches the design
You finish the design, write the spec, and hand it to engineering. The build comes back close but not exact. The padding is off by a few pixels, the heading uses the wrong weight, the hover state is missing. Each of those is a fresh ticket, and each ticket waits behind feature work, so the polish that makes the design yours never quite lands. ronda gives you that last mile back. You open the real page in a live preview, point at the element, and describe the fix in plain English. ronda makes the change in the actual code and opens a pull request. An engineer glances at the diff and merges it, so the production UI matches your intent without a round of tickets.
A concrete example
Fixing spacing and a font weight on the live page
You ship a landing page and the hero heading came back at the wrong weight, with too little space below it. Normally that is two tickets and a few days. With ronda you open the page, point at the heading, and say it should be semibold with more space beneath it before the subheading. ronda makes the change in the real stylesheet and opens a pull request. An engineer approves the small diff and the page matches your design the same day.
How it works
From a design fix to a pull request
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Open the page
Open a live preview of the real product and point at the element you want to adjust.
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Describe the change
Describe the spacing, weight, color, or copy change in plain English. ronda makes the edit in the actual code.
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An engineer reviews
The change lands as a standard GitHub pull request. An engineer reads the diff and merges it, so nothing ships unreviewed.
Why designers use ronda
Design intent reaches production intact
No handoff round-trip
You make the small visual fixes yourself instead of writing a ticket and waiting for a sprint. The polish lands while the design is still fresh.
Real production UI
The change happens in the code your users see, not in a prototype or a design file. There is no second source of truth to reconcile.
Engineers stay in control
Every change is a pull request an engineer approves. You own the visual detail; they keep the final say on what merges.
Questions
ronda for designers
Do I need to write CSS or understand the codebase?
No. You point at the element in a live preview and describe the change in plain English, such as more spacing, a heavier font weight, or a different color. ronda finds the right code and makes the edit. You do not read or write the CSS yourself.
How does this fit with Figma?
Figma is where you design; ronda is where the design reaches production. You still design and spec in Figma. When the build does not match, instead of filing a ticket you make the fix on the real page through ronda, and it ships as a reviewed pull request. ronda does not replace Figma; it closes the gap between the design and the live product.
Will engineers be comfortable with designers changing the app?
Yes, because nothing merges on its own. Every change a designer makes is a pull request an engineer reviews and approves. Engineering keeps control of what ships while the small visual fixes stop waiting in the backlog.
What kind of changes is this good for?
Spacing, font weights and sizes, colors, alignment, copy, swapping an image, and similar visual changes to pages that already exist. Larger redesigns and new components still belong in your normal design and engineering flow, and ronda keeps that boundary by routing everything through review.
What does ronda cost?
The Free plan is $0 with 1 project, 1 sandbox, and 1 collaborator. The Starter plan is $9 per month with 5 projects, 5 sandboxes per project, and unlimited collaborators. Both plans are bring-your-own Anthropic key, so you pay Anthropic directly for AI usage.