Open Design DESTROYS Claude Design? artwork

Open Design DESTROYS Claude Design?

AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

June 20, 2026

Build Any UI for Free: Open Design + Local AI Models Guide Discover Open Design, a powerful open-source tool that allows you to build professional websites, apps, and dashboards using free local AI models.
Speakers: Julian Goldie
**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Today, I'm going to show you how to use Open Design, which is a powerful free open source project that you can plug into your systems to design and build anything that you want. So if you want to see some examples of what we've built, you can see that we've already plugged it into our Agent OS system over here, and it's built some super nice stuff. Now, the main point of this is that number one, this is a free design tool. Number two is very similar to Claude Design. And number three, you can build this with free local models. And the other thing to note here is like even if you're using Fable 5, like even Fable 5 itself, not very good at doing UI changes, right? Claude itself, not very good at understanding what good UI is. But if you have open design, you can get amazing designs like you can see animated websites, you can build apps, tools, amazing, really interesting images as you can see. And this is all inside one studio where you can build anything you want, which is absolutely amazing. So you can see the open design is plugged into our agent OS here, and then we can describe exactly what we want. So I'm going to talk you through how the system works. And I call this the AI Design Studio. So you can type one sentence and get a prototype dashboard, slide deck, image, video, etc. And it's built on your Mac or built by your windows, built by the agents you already use. And you don't need to plug in any API keys or anything like that. So you can just type a sentence, open design goes off and build stuff, your own agent runs it and then you get a finished design. Now, as an example of this, if we go to our settings here inside agent OS, and then we shall go to the settings section, scroll down, you can see here that we can plug this into our existing CLI. So what does that mean? That means, for example, if you have Gemini CLI, which is free, you can operate this. If you have OpenCode, which has free models, you can operate this.
If you're already paying for a Claude subscription, well, you can use that to operate OpenCode, which means that you can use free models and existing CLI's you already have to run this whole system and build and automate whatever you want. That is absolutely amazing when you think about it. Now, if you're wondering, how do you use this? Well, basically they have installation instructions on the GitHub as you can see, and there's all sorts of amazing things you can build here. You can even run it with Hermes, which is mind blowing in itself. You can get an agent to run this directly. You can see all the cool stuff that you can build with this.
Now, you might be wondering, how do you set it up? So we've already plugged it into our Agent OS. So what is you can just follow up with the setup instructions inside. And then from here, you build whatever you want.
And also this is open source, so you can actually customize it however you want to. And you can see some examples of what's already inside our workspace and what we've built with this. And it's super fun, it's easy to build. Now if you're wondering, okay, once you've set up, how do you actually start using it? So basically, you can just go down to the community section here, find a design that you actually like, and then you can customize it however you want. So for example, if we have a look and we scroll down, and we're like, do you know what, I really like this one? Okay, great, let's click on make the same, like so.
And then we can just change this and explain exactly what we want. So let's say it's for example, for an AI or for the AI profit, boardroom community in the AI automation, community focused on helping people save time and grow with AI.
We can hit send now. And basically what that's gonna do is start building this out step by step. So you can see what the prompt on the left, we're using Hermes with a free model called step 3.7 flash free.
And then from here, it's going to start creating on the right hand side. So on the left hand side, we have the prompt itself. On the right hand side, the creation will appear once this is fully built. And so this is just working in the background whilst I go off and do other things. I can even, for example, open up a separate tab of the agent OS and just go off and start building inside a separate CLI and just build whatever I want there, which is the cool thing about this whole system. And it's all ready to go.

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