Taking Open Design Apart: Turning the Coding Agent You Already Have Into a Design Engine
First, a disambiguation. In tech writing “Open Design” points to at least two unrelated things. One is the open-hardware / open design movement that began in the late 1990s (the MIT-adjacent Open Design Foundation, OpenStructures, Open Source Ecology — publishing the blueprints of physical products for collaborative manufacture). The other is a GitHub project that surfaced after 2025, nexu-io/open-design , a tool that turns an AI coding agent into a design engine. ...