Introducing State of DESIGN.md 2026 ✨
The first data study on the AI-built design gap.
Based on 64K+ getdesign.md onboarding responses from developers, vibe coders, and indie hackers who are exploring DESIGN.md to improve how their AI-built apps look.
Full report ↓
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⭐ 116,000 GitHub stars. ⭐
getdesign.md is now one of the top 100 most-starred projects on GitHub. 🤯
Still hard to process that we built something used and supported by this many developers.
Open source is wild.
@kyleleung_io claude design, have you heard about https://t.co/jrNhzx7vHr?
I personally found this youtube tutorial to be helpful
https://t.co/1DraYJ7fXK
Official DESIGN.md files are starting to show up in repos and docs, so we're keeping a list of them here. First-party only, nothing extracted or reverse-engineered.
Spotted one we missed?
Send a PR:
https://t.co/s5DydaSey9
Our agents use 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚌𝚎𝚕.𝚌𝚘𝚖/𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚐𝚗.𝚖𝚍 to build on-brand pages.
▪︎ One file encodes decisions and guidance
▪︎ Output is shaped through our eval harness
▪︎ Production feedback is fed back into the loop
https://t.co/ylz7uB4fhw
https://t.co/7H0jIbkXTG is now live.
It’s the first public registry for DESIGN. md files, released by the VoltAgent team.
If SKILL. md defines what AI agents can do, DESIGN. md defines how the output should look.
Check it out.
Link : https://t.co/qbr010g1ra
Un registre public de fichiers DESIGN.md — layouts, typo, composants, UI kits — que vos agents lisent pour générer une UI cohérente, installable en une commande dans n'importe quel builder ou agent IA.
https://t.co/VWvhNRKZ7y
Cool Website Series #007
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Most AI generated websites look the same because the AI has no real design reference to work from.
getdesign.md fixes that.
It turns 300+ real websites, think BMW, Airbnb, Dell, HP, into a design system file your coding agent can actually read: colors, type, spacing, and the reasoning behind them.
Drop it into your project and your AI stops guessing and starts building in an actual design language.
I have! I used @getdesignmd and paid for the design context on our website. Added that context to the docs in my website files. Added a line in my Claude docs to reference those. And then I was able to one-shot the graphics on this page yesterday: https://t.co/JQkQUcHtUI. I was really just exploring and playing around. But surprised by how well they turned out.
@VaibhavSisinty you could also use Google Stitch to get a design.md file. There's one more resource which I find quite usable which is https://t.co/U97xY85hiE. You can directly copy the design language from the biggies like Nike, Whimsical and several others. Go checkout!
@swarnitghule i like using https://t.co/X6SYl3R6E2 and let an agent do the work. usually after a few tests i get a better idea of how i want to design the pages
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