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Open Design: your coding agent as a design engine
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Open Design: your coding agent as a design engine

A local-first, Apache-2.0 app that turns Claude Code, Cursor and 20+ other CLIs into a design tool. What it actually does, and the honest caveats.

2026-07-10 / 04 min
Field notes: Google Stitch, the free Gemini UI generator
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Field notes: Google Stitch, the free Gemini UI generator

I tried Google Stitch, the free Google Labs tool that turns prompts and sketches into UI designs and frontend code. Where it shines, where it falls flat, and how it compares to v0, Figma Make and Pencil.

2026-07-10 / 04 min
Pencil: a design canvas that lives in your repo
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Pencil: a design canvas that lives in your repo

Pencil puts a Figma-style canvas next to your code and lets AI coding agents draw on it through MCP. Field notes on what it is, how it works, and where it's still rough.

2026-07-10 / 04 min
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