Open Design replicates Claude Design's AI-powered UI generation locally for free, using any model or CLI agent, with 31 skills and 72 design systems for production-ready landing pages, decks, and prototypes.
AI accelerates design from ideation to production UI via a multi-tool workflow—Claude for accurate code, Codex for token efficiency, Stitch for quick mobile layouts, Figma for refinements—not a single dream tool.
Open Design replicates Claude Design's graphical interface for AI-generated prototypes and slide decks, built on Huashu Design, integrates with any LLM CLI like Claude Code to bypass Anthropic usage restrictions, and includes 31 skills plus 72 pre-built design systems.
Embed AI agents as draggable 'fairies' on tldraw's infinite canvas to draw diagrams, coordinate tasks via leader delegation, and execute code directly in a local desktop app for full interactivity.
Use Claude Design to build consistent design systems, pitch decks, websites, app prototypes, and videos for a full brand—while managing session limits for pro output.
Open Design runs locally, plugs into your Claude Code or Codex CLI setup, and uses 19 skills + 71 design systems to generate structured prototypes, dashboards, and decks without new subscriptions.
Google's DESIGN.md standardizes portable design systems for AI tools like Claude Design and Code, enabling inspiration-to-production landing pages without prompt drift or rebuilding.
Polly D'Arcy rose from IC to VP of Design at Wealthsimple by enforcing dogfooding, defining a quality hierarchy, hiring specialists with unique 'spikes,' and using AI to amplify craft—proving leadership bets on potential pay off.
Install Impeccable's open-source skill into Claude Code to teach it 7 design pillars via 23 commands, generate variant layouts, audit sites for slop, and edit live in browser for polished results without mediocre prompts.
AI tools like Claude Design take 9-11 minutes per simple button or menu, burning tokens inefficiently. Build basics and tokens manually first, then use AI for complex modals/cards that ship to production design systems.
AI struggles with full design systems due to time, cost, and rework on basics like buttons (9-11 min vs. 1.5 min manual). Build variables/tokens and simple components yourself, then train AI on them for efficient complex outputs like modals that ship to production.
Claude Design generates live, code-based prototypes (decks, videos, 3D, dashboards) that hand off directly to Claude Code, collapsing design-to-production gaps and restructuring PM, design, eng, and founder workflows.
Claude Design fails to integrate into app-building pipelines due to poor handoffs and lack of specs, but excels at visual ideation for shaping product plans and creating on-brand marketing animations.
Claude Design's animated video skill turns static app UI—AI-generated or Figma-imported—into 15-32s interactive HTML demos for social/stakeholders, bypassing manual animation (screen-record for MP4).
Penpot builds designs on actual CSS, Flexbox, Grid, SVG, and HTML, so devs inspect and copy clean code directly—no Figma translation needed, cutting handoff friction dramatically.
Live online UX training July 20-24 2026 offers 25 courses across AI, interaction, management, research; attend up to 5 for certification at $1195-$1295/course with 10-20% multi-course discounts.
Claude Design generates hi-fi prototypes from prompts, supports design system uploads for consistency, and exports to Figma/Code—accelerates ideation but watch token costs and bugs in complex setups.
Use Claude Design to generate editable hi-fi prototypes from prompts or Figma design systems. Answer clarifying questions, tweak params, edit via comments/direct, export to Figma/Code—but watch token burn and font/parsing bugs.
Claude Design generates editable high-fidelity UI prototypes from prompts and Figma design systems, but high token costs, font bugs, and inconsistent audits make it best for rapid ideation, not production.
Claude Design excels at visual iteration via tweaks and variants for web apps/slides, getting you to 90% UI readiness before exporting to code—far faster than Claude Code's text prompts, if you manage its heavy usage limits.
Master Claude Design's tweaks and variants for rapid visual iteration on web apps and slide decks—beats Claude Code for speed, but watch 20-25% quota burn on design systems.
Export UI kits from Claude Design to Claude Code to skip weekly limits entirely. Stretch remaining usage 5x with Opus for initial designs, Sonnet for edits, one-shot prompts, inline comments, selective uploads, 5-min bursts, fresh chats, and extra billing fallback.
Point Claude Design at your code repo or Figma file; it agentically extracts a design system, then generates styled prototypes like pricing pages or 3D heroes you can edit via voice, sliders, or inline tweaks.
Scan any repo to auto-generate a design system as HTML/CSS assets and docs, then one-shot high-fidelity pages like pricing with voice/DOM edits, exporting to code agents or Canva/PDF.
Paste brand kits from getdesign.md into Claude Design for instant design systems, prototype 5-page sites using durable.com structures, export to Claude Code for Next.js + GSAP animations, deploy free on Vercel via GitHub—all in 10 minutes, no coding needed.
Start with low-fi wireframes via Claw Design's smart questionnaire to validate ideas cheaply, pick agency-style directions, iterate to hi-fi with app references—handles errors via retries, ideal for rapid app prototyping.
Claude Design generates brand-specific design systems from websites in 15 minutes, builds editable prototypes via chat, and hands off directly to Claude Code, enabling founders to ship landing pages and decks without designers.
Upload your site to create a custom design system in 15 minutes, chat to build prototypes like landing pages, then hand off directly to Claude Code—speeds up shipping for founders without designers.
Claude Design enables paid users to generate prototypes, slide decks, and landing pages via natural language descriptions, with wireframing first ensuring precise, editable outputs before coding.
Claude Design ingests Figma files to auto-generate full design systems, wireframes, high-fi interactive prototypes, and animations via iterative prompts—taking 10-15 mins for complex outputs.
Claude Design imports Figma files to auto-generate design systems with CSS styles, assets, and docs, then builds wireframes, prototypes, and animations via guided prompts—exports to code or HTML handoff.
Claude Design lets you conversationally create high-fidelity pitch decks, landing pages, and design systems from prompts and screenshots, with exports to PowerPoint/Canva and handoff to code for deployment—gained 6.6M views in 1 hour.
Use Claude Design to generate prototypes, slides, and landing pages from prompts or PDFs, auto-applying custom design systems built from your repo and guidelines, then handoff to Claude Code for implementation—powered by Opus 4.7's 82-91% visual reasoning benchmarks.
Set up a design system in Claude Design to generate consistent slide decks, prototypes, and landing pages powered by Opus 4.7's 82-91% visual reasoning accuracy, then hand off to Claude Code for production code syncing to GitHub.
Claude Design turns text descriptions into editable prototypes, slides, and visuals for founders and PMs, integrating team design systems and exporting to Canva or PDF.
Claude Code generates repetitive 'AI slop' like purple gradients and Inter font. Use these 10 skills/plugins/CLIs—like Impeccable's 18 anti-pattern commands and SkillUI's site reverse-engineering—to produce premium UIs with tasteful components, testing, and advanced effects.
Claude Code excels at code but generates generic 'AI slop' (purple gradients, Inter font, bento grids)—equip it with these 10 skills, CLIs, and tools for tasteful, production-ready UIs via anti-patterns, reverse-engineering, and rapid prototyping.
Claude Code produces generic purple gradients, Inter fonts, and bento grids—use these 10 skills/tools like Impeccable (18 anti-slop commands), Skill UI (reverse-engineers sites into skills), and Stitch (visual mockups) to generate premium, differentiated frontend designs.
Prep Figma design tokens with descriptions, build Claude skills for tokens/components, attach Mobbin screenshots, generate HTML locally then push to Figma for production-ready designs matching your system.
Ian Silber explains how OpenAI designers treat AI models as the core product, prototype with code over Figma, and build reusable primitives around chat interfaces.
Connect Claude Desktop to Figma via MCP to generate iterative designs, push prototypes, create docs/audits—boosted by custom skills and research, despite Figma Skills inconsistencies.
Visa data team built an accessible web components chart library, then iterated to a design system handling messy real-world data, enforcing best practices for faster, better visualizations across teams.
Place a design.md file from awesome-design-md in your Verdant project root and prompt it as the visual source of truth to generate coherent frontends inspired by Vercel, Linear, and 50+ other sites.
Link Claude Code app to Figma MCP and your tokens library to auto-create components with variants that match your design system spacings, colors, and typography—saving 20-25 minutes per component.
Link Claude Code app to Figma via MCP and your tokens library to auto-create variant components that match your design system spacings, colors, and typography—taking 2-5 minutes per simple component vs. 20-25 minutes manually.
Shopify's Product Design Studio runs like an agency of specialists—motion, product, engineering—who collaborate without hierarchy in a fun environment where great design emerges inevitably.
Follow this stack—Figma design systems, Magic Path prototypes from meeting transcripts, Cursor/Claude Code for functionality, Listenner tests—to build, implement, and validate prototypes in a tight feedback loop.
Figma Skills are reusable .md files guiding AI on Figma actions like components and variables, but deliver wildly inconsistent results now—install foundational ones and audit skills for immediate use while preparing for workflow integration.
Use these 5 Claude skills—Find Skills, Front-End Design, Benium UX Designer, Web Artifacts Builder, Skill Creator—to discover, apply, and customize AI tools that produce polished, non-generic front-end code and UX flows.
Use Stitch 2.0's design.md systems, redesign from screenshots/sites, agent skills like Stitch loop, and Shadcn integration with Claude to build consistent, interactive UIs that match niche patterns without generic looks.
Centralize Liquid Glass in iOS 26 apps using design tokens (e.g., card radius 28, stroke width 1), a single .glassSurface modifier with iOS 26 glassEffect fallback to ultraThinMaterial, and components like GlassCard for consistent, accessible glassy UIs that morph cohesively.
Canva's new foundational model generates editable layered designs across formats like social posts and presentations, surpassing flat images by allowing direct iteration without heavy prompting.
Humanize brands by asking 'If a person, how would it look and sound?' to forge emotional connections; treat personal sites as playgrounds for tech experiments; view AI/tech as amplifiers of human creativity, not replacements.
Gabriel Valdivia, with 15 years building 0→1 products at top tech firms, partners fractionally with early-stage founders to shape strategy, prototype interactively, collaborate with engineers, and build teams—prioritizing speed, systems, and action over docs.
Ditch scattered galleries for list-based previews with layered modals: preview projects instantly via multiple images and info panels, highlight standouts with SVG masks, built in 2 years using Webflow + GSAP for smooth, responsive interactions.
Community-driven open-source icon library forked from Feather Icons, offering 1000+ SVG icons with official packages for React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, and more, plus Figma plugin. No brand logos for legal and consistency reasons.
