Open Design: The Open-Source Alternative to Claude Design

Open Design emerged as a community-built alternative within four days of Claude Design’s April 17 launch, addressing lock-in concerns through Apache 2.0 licensing and local-first architecture.

• Supports 11 coding CLIs (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Qwen, and others) with auto-detection and 70 pre-built product design systems including Linear, Stripe, Vercel, and Apple palettes
• Design loop driven by selectable skills: lock a brief, choose from 5 visual schools, stream live planning, generate artifacts in sandboxed iframes
• BYOK model routes through OpenAI-compatible proxies (DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, vLLM); all data stored locally in SQLite with fork-and-deploy freedom under Apache 2.0