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What is Design OS?

The missing step between your product idea and your codebase.

"Your coding agent needs a designer."

Design OS is the missing step between your product idea and your codebase. It's a free, open-source product planning and design tool powered by Claude Code that helps you:

  • Define your product vision and break down your roadmap
  • Structure your data model before writing any code
  • Design your UI with AI assistance through guided conversations
  • Export production-ready component handoffs for implementation

The Problem It Solves

AI coding tools are incredible at building fast. But the results often miss the mark. You describe what you want, the agent builds something, but it's not what you envisioned. The UI looks generic. Features get half-implemented. You spend as much time fixing and redirecting as you would have spent building.

The core issue: We're asking coding agents to figure out what to build and build it simultaneously. Design decisions get made on the fly, buried in code, impossible to adjust without starting over. There's no spec. No shared understanding. No source of truth for what "done" looks like.

Rather than jumping straight into code, Design OS guides you through a structured process that captures what you're building and why — then hands off everything your coding agent needs to build it right.

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