About Open Design.
Open Design is built by Powerformer, Inc. We have shipped open-source tools for years — a line of products including Refly and Nexu — and in 2026 we released Open Design: a one-stop, agent-native design platform.
Our vision
For decades, design barely changed: you open an app and drag shapes around a canvas by hand. Figma, Sketch, Photoshop — all variations of the same manual loop. We think that is about to shift. Design is becoming a capability every agent can call — woven into how products get built, the way coding already is.
2026 is the inflection point: models finally have real aesthetic judgment. World-class design no longer has to be a scarce resource locked behind specialists and expensive seats — paired with the right design system, it can be a default anyone can reach.
Open Design takes the coding agent already on your laptop and lets it step out of the code window to actually design, produce, and ship — local-first, open-source, BYOK at every layer, and neutral to any agent runtime. Skills, design systems, and templates are shared freely and get better with every use.
Our goal is to rekindle the curiosity for beauty — so people who are not designers can still make things that look great. An open, agent-native design ecosystem: design that evolves with you, not design you rent.
Open Design is Apache-2.0 and built in the open.