💡 Summary
Design OS is a guided tool for product planning and design, bridging the gap between ideas and code.
🎯 Target Audience
🤖 AI Roast: “Powerful, but the setup might scare off the impatient.”
Risk: Medium. Review: outbound network access (SSRF, data egress). Run with least privilege and audit before enabling in production.
The missing design process between your idea and your codebase.
Design OS is 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.
Documentation & Installation
Docs, installation, usage, & best practices 👉 It's all here
Support, Training & Community
For official support, training, and community as you use Design OS—for yourself or with your team, consider joining Builder Methods Pro. You'll get access to Brian Casel (the creator) for questions, a community of builders using Design OS, plus all Builder Methods workshops and training on AI-first development.
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Created by Brian Casel @ Builder Methods
Created by Brian Casel, the creator of Builder Methods, where Brian helps professional software developers and teams build with AI.
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Pros
- Structured design process
- Facilitates collaboration with AI
- Exports production-ready components
Cons
- May add complexity to initial design
- Dependent on user input quality
- Limited information on installation
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