What is Design OS?
Design OS is the missing step between your product idea and your codebase.
It's a product planning and design tool that helps you define your product vision, structure your data model, design your UI, and export production-ready components for implementation. Rather than jumping straight into code, you work through a guided process that captures what you're building and why—then hands off everything your coding agent needs to build it right.
The Problem
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.
The Design OS Process
Design OS powers a guided design and architecture process. You + AI, working together through structured steps:
- Product Planning — Define your vision, break down your roadmap, and model your data
- Design System — Choose colors, typography, and design your application shell
- Section Design — For each feature area: specify requirements, generate sample data, and design the screens
- Export — Generate a complete handoff package for implementation
Each step is a conversation. The AI asks questions, you provide direction, and together you shape a product that matches your vision—before any implementation begins.
Who It's For
- Technical builders — Full control over architecture and design decisions without doing all the legwork yourself.
- Non-technical product builders — A strong vision for how your product should work, plus the ability to put your imprint on its systems—no technical background required.
Compatibility
- Works with any AI coding agent: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or anything that can implement from a handoff
- Your frontend needs React and Tailwind CSS
- Your backend can be anything—Rails, Laravel, Next.js, Python, whatever