Turn your coding agent into the ultimate designer

Build UIs that need no explanation, ship faster, and burn fewer tokens.

Level up your AI agent

Works with:

Claude CodeCursorVS CodeCodex

Backed by

Y Combinator

“I'm stuck with prototype-level design.”

You asked Claude to build a settings page. It shipped in 2 minutes. But it's unusable for serious projects. The UX is unintuitive. Your brand colors? Nowhere. Error states? Missing. Mobile layout? A mess.

Where your coding agent meets its design team

Design Rails pairs your coding agent with specialized AI counterparts, each with deep context of your brand and a unique design domain expertise. They work in parallel to generate comprehensive specs for your coding agent to implement, and to review your agent's implementation.

Specialist agent team

Copywriters, UX designers, visual designers, and accessibility experts work in parallel to craft each interface.

Deep product and brand knowledge

Deep context of your users, workflows, component library, brand guidelines, and design system, so every spec is tailored to your product.

Proven UX patterns

A growing library of proven UX patterns featured in top products, ready for agents to reference when solving design challenges.

Compare AI-Generated UIs

See Claude Code results with and without Design Rails guidance.

Restaurant Website

Prompt

Create a reservation page for "Harvest Moon" - an upscale farm-to-table restaurant...

Social analytics dashboard

Prompt

Create an analytics dashboard for "GrowthMetrics" - a social media management tool...

Premium headphones

Prompt

Build a product detail page for "SonicPro Max" - $399 premium wireless headphones...

From feature request to polished design

1

You describe the feature

Tell your coding agent what you want to build, just like you normally would.

2

Design Rails assembles the team

Your coding agent calls Design Rails, which orchestrates specialist AI agents with deep knowledge of your product and brand.

3

Specialists work in parallel

Copywriters craft messaging, UX designers plan workflows and interactions, visual designers apply your brand, accessibility experts ensure compliance. Each contributes their expertise simultaneously.

4

A comprehensive spec emerges

Complete with layout decisions, component choices, responsive behavior, copy that matches your voice, edge cases, error states, loading states, and accessibility considerations.

5

Your coding agent implements it

With a detailed design blueprint in hand, your coding agent writes production-ready code confidently.

What you get with Design Rails

Maintain consistency across your product

No more franken-UI. Design Rails ensures every new component respects your design system, follows established patterns, and maintains brand coherence.

Use proven patterns, not generic defaults

Access to battle-tested patterns from industry leaders means your AI agent taps into collective design wisdom, not just generic Material UI components.

Cover edge cases that always get forgotten

Empty states. Error messages. Loading indicators. Mobile layouts. The unglamorous-but-essential details that separate amateur from professional UI.

Extend designer thinking through every commit

When designers define your system, patterns, and standards, Design Rails ensures those decisions get applied correctly every time. This frees them to work on novel UX problems, user research, and strategic improvements instead of repetitive component decisions.

FAQ

Try Design Rails

Connect your agent to Design Rails

Add Design Rails to your project's MCP configuration:

npx designrails@latest setup --claude

Design Rails is the context layer that gives AI code agents the design intelligence they're missing.

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