Editorial notes on Open Design, agent-native design workflows, BYOK, skills, systems, and community.https://open-design.ai/https://open-design.ai/blog/byok-reality-check-5-things-that-break/https://open-design.ai/blog/byok-reality-check-5-things-that-break/We promised BYOK as first-class. Five open bug threads from this week — Gemini, DeepSeek, OpenCode, Windows — show where the seams are still rough, and what to use until each fix lands.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideshttps://open-design.ai/blog/open-source-alternative-to-claude-design/https://open-design.ai/blog/open-source-alternative-to-claude-design/Claude Design is good. It's also closed-source, hosted-only, and bundled with a Claude subscription. Here's the honest read on when to pick it — and when the open-source path wins.Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideshttps://open-design.ai/blog/31-skills-72-systems-how-the-library-works/https://open-design.ai/blog/31-skills-72-systems-how-the-library-works/A walk through the four primitives that make Open Design composable: skills, systems, adapters, and the daemon. With concrete examples of how a Markdown file becomes a pixel-perfect deliverable.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideshttps://open-design.ai/blog/byok-design-workflow-claude-codex-qwen/https://open-design.ai/blog/byok-design-workflow-claude-codex-qwen/Most AI design tools quietly add a margin to every token you spend. Open Design takes the opposite stance — bring your own model key, pay the provider directly, and keep full control of where inference runs. Here's how the BYOK layer actually works.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTGuideshttps://open-design.ai/blog/why-we-built-open-design-as-a-skill-layer/https://open-design.ai/blog/why-we-built-open-design-as-a-skill-layer/Most AI design tools try to replace the agent already on your laptop. Open Design takes the opposite bet: ship a thin layer of skills, systems, and adapters that turn any coding agent into a design engine — without locking you into a new app.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTProduct