Official Open Design source page.
Open Design (also searched as OpenDesign, open-design, opendesign, or Open Design AI) is the official open-source AI design workspace from the nexu-io/open-design project. This page lists every canonical surface so you can verify the source for yourself.
Canonical surfaces
Bookmark open-design.ai and the GitHub repo. Everything else points back to one of these two.
Naming & aliases
The project is searched and written several ways depending on the tool, audience, and locale:
- Open Design — display name in the product UI, blog, and READMEs.
- OpenDesign — common one-word search variant; same project.
- open-design — repository / package slug.
- opendesign — lowercase alias used in URLs and CLI invocations.
- Open Design AI — long-form search variant for AI-design queries.
- OD — internal abbreviation for the runtime and CLI bin.
All six names refer to this same project. The canonical URL is always open-design.ai.
Maintainer & license
Open Design is developed in the open at github.com/nexu-io/open-design and released under the Apache-2.0 license. Issues, RFCs, and roadmap conversations happen on GitHub Issues and Discord.
What runs on your machine
Open Design ships three runnable surfaces — all open source, all local-first:
- Desktop app — packaged Electron build for macOS, Windows, Linux.
- Daemon (od) — local HTTP daemon and CLI for agents, shell, or CI.
- Skills + Systems — Markdown bundles you can fork, edit, and ship.
Where to go next
- Quickstart — install in three commands.
- Agents — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode, Qwen.
- Claude Design alternative — comparison and migration.
- Skills catalog — every shippable design skill.
- Systems catalog — every portable DESIGN.md brand system.