Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine
THE SO WHAT
Treating your coding agent as a design engine collapses the wall between UX and implementation — prompts become the new design spec. Teams that don’t formalize how agents participate in design reviews will end up with unowned UX decisions buried in code.
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