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Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
57•steveharing1•2h ago

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ricardobeat•1h ago
The README is unnerving. Do people really see the Claude-salesman style of writing as something normal?

On the other hand, I should be thanking Anthropic for making it so easy to spot, they might have done this intentionally.

ColinEberhardt•1h ago
Agreed, I could just about bear it until I hit the “ Six load-bearing ideas” section. Very off-putting.
Strom•48m ago
I found the At a glance section especially funny. Just a ton of buzzwords compressed together. One of the most dense tables I've ever seen on GitHub.
wismwasm•35m ago
Yep I agree. I was looking for a getting started like for example here for openspec: https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs/gettin... but couldn't find anything like that
AstroBen•29m ago
> That's not "AI tries to design something". That's an AI that has been trained, by the prompt stack, to behave like a senior designer with a working filesystem, a deterministic palette library, and a checklist culture

What, you don't want your senior designer to have a working filesystem and checklist culture? No deterministic palettes?

ModernMech•48m ago
Repo's been up for a week and already it has 14k stars.

Oh look, they are gaining stars at a rate of pretty much exactly 1400 per day: https://www.star-history.com/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&ty...

Yeah, nothing shady here at all.

bastac•44m ago
Do people really buy stars for github? Would explain some of these crazy growths
thrance•41m ago
Apparently so. Posted 12 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831621
walthamstow•19m ago
Don't underestimate stars given by claws without direct instruction from humans. Not bought or sold, but not real either.
steveharing1•45m ago
I really appreciate open source community for moving this fast
nilirl•42m ago
How does a human designer even compete? I just looked at all the demos and they look beautiful.

I hand designed my site https://www.nair.sh/ and it feels like it doesn't even compare.

Sure, there's some judgment as to what design is appropriate in a given situation, but it just feels like so much harder for a human's design to feel valuable now.

orphea•37m ago
How do human artists compete with AI-gen images?
nilirl•6m ago
Your point? It's an analogical problem.

I love writing but even there I have to work doubly hard to make sure I'm doing something valuable.

My point is that the space within which human creators can distinguish themselves is diminishing rapidly.

exe34•34m ago
Originality. The same as with art. Art and design are more than just a mean to satisfy a need. They are an opportunity to explore, to question. When Georges Seurat developed pointillism, he wasn't trying to compete with the people who could imitate Raphael. He created his own direction.
esafak•32m ago
Are you a designer? Everything AI does looks impressive if you are not familiar with it.
ModernMech•4m ago
I feel the designs they present are actually quite bad. Like... they are an anti-ad for this product. Just random fonts, bold, italics, underlines. Bad contrast, skinny small fonts, you can't tell what's a link and what's not.

Your site is actually really nice except the red color burns into my retina, so that's the only thing I would change about it.

Saline9515•11m ago
To be fair I find the approach from claude design incredibly wasteful of tokens, and time-consuming since it needs to build a full website. Their website is also clearly vibe-coded and not homogeneous in style with the rest.

ChatGPT image 2 is much better at protoyping uis, cheaper and faster. I haven't tried the figma plugin but I suspect it's also more efficient.

faangguyindia•3m ago
Do people design UIs first?

I just basically define what I need in a UI in plain text

when the prototype is built.

I extract the repeating units, then add design to it.

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418•buildbot•9h ago•195 comments

Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design
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