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Designing My New Website Header on Lovable
April 07, 2026
Framer is home for me. I know its quirks, I trust its output, and I can move fast in it. But there's one thing Framer doesn't do easily; a fullscreen looping video background with a proper glassmorphic nav sitting on top of it, all feeling cinematic and intentional. I wanted exactly that for my portfolio hero. So I went outside Framer to get it, and then brought it back in. Here's how.
The Prompt That Started It
I came across a prompt structure from motionsites.ai designed specifically for building hero sections. I fed it into Lovable — an AI coding tool that generates and deploys React apps — with a few specifics of my own: a deep navy background, Instrument Serif for display type, a liquid glass effect on the nav, and a cinematic headline with staggered fade-rise animations. The full stack: React + Vite + Tailwind CSS + TypeScript with shadcn/ui. Lovable generated the entire thing, video background, animation delays, in one shot. The prompt handled it in seconds. The key to getting a clean output was specificity. Color values in HSL, exact font weights, animation timing, z-index logic — the more precise the prompt, the less cleanup on the other side. You can copy the exact prompt I had used on Lovable down below.
Stripping It Down
Here's the part most people skip: I didn't use the full output. The generated hero had text, a logo, nav links, CTAs; everything baked in as React components. But I didn't want any of that. I wanted Framer to own all the content, interactions, and responsiveness. Lovable was only there for one thing: the video background. So I asked Lovable to strip the component down to just the visual layer; no text, no live copy, pure banner. Once that was clean, I published it and got a live URL.
Bringing It Into Framer
The live URL became an iframe embedded directly in Framer. That iframe is the visual foundation, the video and the depth. Everything else is native Framer. I placed the text, headline, subtext and CTA in a stack with absolute positioning pinned to all four corners with generous padding, sitting on top of the iframe. Both layers were grouped into a single frame. From there, responsive adaptation across desktop, tablet, and mobile was handled entirely within Framer's breakpoint system. The result: a cinematic hero that Framer could never have produced alone, controlled and typed entirely within Framer's native environment.
Why This Workflow Works
Framer is excellent at layout, interactions, and responsiveness. Lovable, and tools like it, are excellent at generating complex visual effects that would take hours to write by hand. The iframe is the bridge between the two. You're not choosing one tool over the other. You're using each for what it's actually good at. If you're a designer who wants more visual ambition in your Framer builds without learning to write production React from scratch, this is the workflow. Find what Framer can't do. Build it elsewhere. Bring it back.
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