nexu-io/open-design

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Summary

Open Design is a local-first, open-source alternative to Claude Design that runs as a native desktop app. It provides over 259 skills and 142+ design systems for creating web, desktop, mobile prototypes, slides, images, videos, and HyperFrames. The tool supports sandboxed preview, exports to HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4, and integrates with 17+ CLI tools including Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Qwen, Copilot, Hermes, and Kimi.

Key features

• Local-first, open-source design tool
• Native desktop application
• 259+ skills and 142+ design systems
• Supports web, desktop, mobile prototypes, slides, images, videos, HyperFrames
• Sandboxed preview with HTML/PDF/PPTX/MP4 export
• Integrates with 17+ CLI tools including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and more

Use cases

• Rapid UI prototyping for web and mobile apps
• Creating design system components and slides
• Generating images and videos for presentations
• Building interactive HyperFrames for demos
• Exporting designs to HTML, PDF, PPTX, or MP4

README excerpt

# Open Design — the open-source Claude Design alternative > **Open Design is the open-source, local-first alternative to [Claude Design][cd].** Web-deployable, BYOK at every layer — **16 coding-agent CLIs** auto-detected on your `PATH` (Claude Code, Codex, Devin for Terminal, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Qwen, Qoder CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Hermes, Kimi, Pi, Kiro, Kilo, Mistral Vibe, DeepSeek TUI) become the design engine, driven by **132 composable Skills** and **150 brand-grade Design Systems**. No CLI? An OpenAI-compatible BYOK proxy is the same loop minus the spawn. > [!IMPORTANT] > ### 🔥 `0.8.0-preview` is here. Design's old world ends here. > > The open-source alternative to Claude Design / Figma — 40k stars in two weeks got us this far. **We need you to push the rest of the way.** > > **Iterating fast on `main`** — 0.8.0 is the next phase of Open Design. Ship a PR, drop a wild idea, file a bug — what you bring is what this movement becomes. > > → [**Read the announcement, grab the installer, join the movement**](https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/discussions/1727) · runs side-by-side with your current 0.7. <p align="center"> <img src="docs/assets/banner.png" alt="Open Design — editorial cover: design with the agent on your laptop" width="100%" /> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/stargazers"><img alt="Stars" src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/nexu-io/open-design?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=0d1117&color=ffd700&logo=github&logoColor=white" /></a> <a href="https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design/network/members"><img alt="Forks" src="https://img.shields.io/github/forks/nexu-io/open-design?style=for-the-badge&labelColor=0d1117&color=2ecc71&logo=github&logoColor=white" /></a> <a href="https://github.

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