I want to walk you through the stack I used for this one. Not the client details, not the business specifics, just the process and the tools that took an idea and turned it into a clear, working website. This is not a one-size-fits-all approach, it is the stack that made sense for this particular project. If you have ever felt stuck staring at an empty editor wondering where to start, there might be something here worth borrowing.

Behind every clean website is a slightly less clean desk. This is where the wireframes, designs, and final build all took shape.

The Problem With Starting From Scratch

Here is something most tutorials do not tell you. The hardest part of building a website is not the building. It is the starting.

When you open a fresh project with no structure, no layout, and no visual direction, you end up making a hundred small decisions before you write a single meaningful line of anything. Where does the hero go? What does the spacing feel like? How do the sections flow into each other? Designing entirely in your head while building at the same time is slow, and it usually leads to rework.

So for this project, I decided to separate the thinking from the doing. Design first. Build second. Here is how that broke down across four tools.

Step One: Google Stitch for the Initial Design and Wireframe

I started with Google Stitch, an AI design tool that turns prompts into website layouts and wireframes.

The goal at this stage was not perfection. It was direction. I fed Stitch a detailed prompt describing the brand, the structure, the audience, and the feel I was going for, and it generated a full initial layout I could actually react to. That is the key word here, react. It is far easier to look at something and say "this works, this does not" than it is to conjure the whole thing from nothing.

Within a short time I had a complete visual starting point. Hero sections, content blocks, page structure, all roughed out and ready to refine. The momentum that gave me was worth more than any individual design decision.

A quick tip if you try this: be specific in your prompts. Mention the audience, the tone, the colors, and the kind of sections you want. The more direction you give it, the closer the first output lands to what you actually need.

Step Two: Figma for the Real Design Work

Stitch gets you most of the way to a starting point, but it is not where the real design happens. For that, I moved everything into Figma.

This is where the design went from "rough idea" to "this is the website." I imported the Stitch concepts and then went to work making definite, intentional decisions. Refining the layouts, fixing the spacing, locking in the typography, adjusting the color application, and shaping each page until it actually represented the final product.

Figma is also where collaboration lives. Having the full design in one place meant I could share it, gather feedback, and make changes in a space built for exactly that, long before touching any development. Catching a layout problem in Figma takes seconds. Catching it after you have built it takes a lot longer.

By the end of this stage, I had a complete, approved design. Every page, every section, every detail decided. That meant the build phase could be about execution, not guesswork.

Step Three: Sourcing Visuals With Google Flow AI

A design is only as strong as the visuals inside it. Stock photos can work, but they often feel generic and disconnected from the brand. For this project I used Google Flow AI to generate custom imagery tailored to exactly what each section needed.

Instead of hunting through stock libraries hoping to find something close enough, I could describe the exact scene I wanted and generate it. That meant the imagery matched the brand and the message of each section rather than just filling space.

The lesson here is that visuals are not an afterthought. They carry as much of the message as the words do, and being able to generate purpose-built images kept the whole site feeling cohesive.

Step Four: Building It for Real in Wix Studio

With the design locked and the visuals ready, the final step was bringing it all to life in Wix Studio.

I chose Wix Studio specifically because of what it offers beyond a basic site builder. It supports a proper CMS, dynamic pages, and genuine responsive control, which matters when a project is meant to grow rather than stay static. Using the Figma designs as my exact reference, I rebuilt everything in Studio, matching the layouts, wiring up the structure, and making sure it held together cleanly across desktop, tablet, and mobile.

One thing that saved me a lot of time at this stage was the Figma to Wix Studio plugin. Instead of manually recreating every style detail, I used the plugin inside Figma and connected it to my Wix Studio site, which pulled across the style foundations like colors, theme, fonts, and text styles directly. That meant I started the build with the design system already in place rather than setting it all up by hand, If you want to set this up yourself, this walkthrough on setting up the Figma to Wix Studio plugin is the one I followed.

Because the design work was already done, this phase moved quickly and with very little second-guessing. I was not inventing as I went. I was translating a finished design into a working product. That is a much calmer way to build.

Why This Stack Worked for This Project

Looking back, the strength of this particular setup was the separation of stages. Each tool did one job well, and each handed off cleanly to the next.

Google Stitch removed the blank-page problem and gave me direction fast. Figma turned that direction into a real, refined, approved design. Google Flow AI gave me visuals that actually belonged to the brand. And Wix Studio turned the finished design into a living, responsive website built to scale.

The result was a clear, exact website that matched the design closely, delivered without the chaos of designing and building at the same time. For this project, with these goals, it was the right combination.

Final Thoughts

The tools are not the point. The thinking behind them is. If you take one thing from this, let it be the idea of separating your design from your development. Decide what you are building before you build it, and pick the tools that fit the job in front of you rather than forcing every project through the same pipeline.

This was the right stack for this project. The next one might call for something completely different, and that is exactly the plan for this series. Each post will break down a different combination of tools for a different kind of project, because no two builds are ever quite the same.

If you have a stack that works for you, or you want to ask about any part of this one, I would love to hear from you.

You can see more of my work at timilehinoke.com, and feel free to reach out if you'd like to talk shop**.**

This is the first in a series breaking down the different tools and stacks I use across the projects I work on. Every project is different, and so is every post. More to come.