Bringing Midjourney Web Concepts to Life in Figma

Have you created stunning web design ideas using Midjourney and wondered how to make them interactive? Moving from a static image concept to a working prototype might seem tricky. This guide walks you through a process to take your AI-generated web designs from Midjourney, prepare them in tools like Photoshop, and bring them to life with animation in Figma.

It starts with your Midjourney image. When creating your design in Midjourney, focus on the layout and overall look. You can use standard prompts describing the website type. Features like `quality`, `stylize`, `version`, and `aspect ratio` help you get the specific look and vertical layout you need for a web page concept.

Preparing Midjourney Assets for Animation

A single image is great for a concept, but animation needs separate pieces. You need to break down the design into individual layers or assets.

Isolating Design Elements

Tools like Photoshop are useful here. You can open your Midjourney image and use the Marquee tool to select parts of the design, like buttons, images, or text blocks. Copy each selection to a new layer (using Command J). Do this for all the main objects in your design that you want to move or animate later.

Once everything is on its own layer, you can export these layers as individual PNG files. This can often be done automatically using features like 'Layers to Files' in Photoshop's Export menu. This saves a lot of time compared to saving each piece by hand.

Adding Depth with Shadows

Sometimes, your Midjourney design includes shadows you want to replicate or enhance. You can automate the creation of shadow layers for your extracted assets.

• Record an 'Action' in Photoshop. This action would duplicate your layer, select the subject, copy the subject to a new layer, and then work with the original layer to isolate the shadow using tools like Color Range.

• Once the shadow is isolated, fill it with black on a new layer and save it as a PNG.

• Stop recording the action.

• Use the 'Batch' automate feature to run this shadow-creating action on all the assets you exported earlier. This generates shadow files for each element.

While you might need to fine-tune a few results, this batch process saves significant effort.

Managing numerous Midjourney generations and preparing assets can be time-consuming. Consider using the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT. It can help streamline parts of your Midjourney workflow, making it easier to get and organize the initial designs you want to work with.

Expanding Backgrounds for Fixed Scrolling

For effects like a fixed background that stays in place while content scrolls over it, you might need to extend parts of your background image. If you have a background element, copy it into its own document.

• Use selection tools to clean up edges if needed.

• Expand the document size vertically using the crop tool.

• Use generative tools (like Photoshop's Beta features) to fill the added space, making sure the selection slightly overlaps the existing content. Generate a few options until you get a good match.

This creates a taller background image ready for the scrolling effect in Figma. Repeat the asset extraction and preparation process for any other sections of your design.

Building and Animating in Figma

With your assets ready, it’s time to move to Figma.

Setting Up the Design in Figma

• Create a new desktop frame in Figma (e.g., a MacBook Pro size).

• Import your original Midjourney image and place it in the frame, resizing to fit. This acts as a guide.

• Duplicate the frame.

• Import all the individual assets (elements, shadows) you prepared. Layer them precisely over their positions on the guide image. Reduce the guide image's opacity to make this easier.

• Add background shapes for sections like the header, using the Color Picker tool to match the gradient colors from the Midjourney design.

• Trace other UI elements and add details like drop shadows and text, matching the font and color from the Midjourney image as closely as possible.

Repeat this process for each section of your website design (header, second section, third section, etc.), adding background shapes, placing assets, and adding text and UI details.

Creating the Scroll-Based Animation

To make the elements animate as the user scrolls:

• Place your main design frame inside a larger frame that represents the browser window size. Make sure "Clip content" is unchecked on the outer frame so you can see parts of your design outside the window view.

• Draw a simple scroll bar shape near the top of the outer frame.

• Duplicate this outer frame.

• In the second frame, select the inner design frame (the one with all your content) and slide it up until the bottom reaches the bottom of the outer window frame. This represents the scrolled-down state.

• Move the scroll bar shape in the second frame to the bottom.

• Go to Prototype mode. Select the scroll bar in the *first* frame. Add an interaction: set it to "On drag", "Navigate to" the second frame, and ensure "Smart animate" is selected.

• Do the same for the scroll bar in the *second* frame, linking it back to the first frame.

Now, when you preview, dragging the scroll bar lets you scroll between the two states.

Animating the Elements

The magic happens by changing element positions in the second frame. In the second (scrolled-down) frame, move key design elements to their final position for the animation.

For the fixed scrolling background effect, select that extended background image in the second frame and move it downwards.

For elements lower on the page, you might position them *outside* the view in the *first* frame so they animate *into* place as you scroll down to their section.

Preview your prototype again. As you drag the scroll bar, the elements you moved in the second frame will animate smoothly between their starting position (in frame 1) and ending position (in frame 2).

Turning AI art into interactive designs involves multiple steps, from generating the concept to preparing assets and building the prototype. Automating repetitive tasks can free up your time for creative work. Check out the Midjourney Automation Suite from TitanXT to see how it might improve your workflow.

Conclusion

By following these steps, you can take a static Midjourney web design concept and turn it into a dynamic, scrolling prototype in Figma. This process combines the creative power of AI image generation with the detailed control of design tools to bring your ideas to life.

Streamline your Midjourney process and focus on the design aspects you love. Explore tools like the TitanXT Midjourney Automation Suite to help manage your generations more efficiently.