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    Microsoft's 'Ink to Code' builds an app UI from your sketches

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    01.26.2018

    Sometimes, inspiration strikes in inconvenient places, and the best you can do to make sure the idea doesn't escape you is to write it down on scraps of paper or a napkin. The latest experimental project out of Microsoft's Garage program, which encourages employees to work on their innovative ideas, wants to make it easier to turn those "napkin sketches" into real products... for developers, at least. Called "Ink to Code," the Windows application takes rough notes and drawings and turns them into real code for Universal Windows and Android apps' user interfaces.