UXJul 20267 min read
Sara Nolan
Design Director, VirtualTechX
The most interesting work in AI-assisted design isn't happening behind SaaS paywalls. It's happening in public repositories — where the file formats are open, the models are swappable, and the community decides what a "design tool" even is. Five projects we watch, use, and contribute to.
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The common thread: none of these treat AI as a magic "generate my app" button. The projects that matter give designers inspectable primitives — open canvases, open formats, open models — and let the intelligence assist rather than replace. That's the version of AI-assisted design we'd bet a client's product on.
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