Open Design

Open Design: The open-source Claude Design alternative

🔥 Open Design 0.9.0 is here: create without the setup. The official Model Router is built right into the app — no extra configuration, no CLI to install, no API key to prepare. Just open the app, sign in, and start designing and creating right away. Download 0.9.0 · Join the discussion

🏅 The Open Design Fellow program is now open. If you also believe design should be open — become an Open Design Fellow, shape the product alongside the core team, and help more people take part in defining the future of design. Details → MAINTAINERS.md and Discord.

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What is Open Design

🎨 The local-first, open-source Claude Design alternative.  🖥️ Native desktop app for macOS and Windows.  ⚡ 100+ skills · ✨ 150 brand-grade DESIGN.md systems · 📦 261 ready-to-use plugins.  🖼️ Generates web · desktop · mobile prototypes, live dashboards / artifacts, decks, images, video, plus HyperFrames motion graphics. 🔒 Sandboxed iframe preview · HTML / PDF / PPTX / MP4 export.  🤖 Runs on Claude Code · OpenClaw · Codex · Cursor · OpenCode · Qwen · Copilot · Hermes · Kimi · Antigravity and 21 local CLIs, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via BYOK.

Open Design is what you get when the agent-native loop Anthropic shipped with Claude Design — discover the brief, lock the direction, stream the artifact, critique, deliver — stops being closed and becomes a filesystem of skills, design systems, and plugins that the coding agents already on your laptop can read, write, and remix. Your CLI becomes the design engine, your laptop becomes the studio, and your team's DESIGN.md becomes the brand contract.

It's also the Figma alternative for the agent era — instead of pushing pixels on a canvas, it delivers single-page artifacts in real CSS, real fonts, real components, exported straight to HTML / PDF / PPTX / MP4 — already shaped by your design system, already runnable inside the agent you use every day.

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Product tour

A quick look at what Open Design is and what it does. Start from Home, orchestrate repeat workflows with Automation, distill a brand contract in Design System, and extend with Plugins and integrations; inside any project's Studio, the same design system streams out prototypes, live artifacts, HyperFrames, decks, and images.

Core pages

Home — the overview entry point. Pick a skill and a design system, type the brief, and kick off everything from one place.