nexu-io/open-design is a local-first collaborative AI design workspace where teams and AI agents do design work together in the same workspace. Written in TypeScript, it is an open-source project released under the Apache-2.0 license. The most recent release is open-design-v0.26.0, and the repository creation date is recorded as 2026-04-28.
The tool brings design work and collaboration together in a single workspace. According to the repository description, teams and AI agents create motion, prototypes, websites, apps, dashboards, presentations, images and video together, and the flow of sharing work and exchanging feedback is built into it. The README describes a way of working in which a team builds prototypes on the basis of a design system and refines them together with agents. The published material lets you review and adjust the underlying technical and design frameworks and plugins, and the product guide includes workflows for design systems, prototypes, presentations, and image and video production. Worked examples of prototype, slide, image and motion graphics tasks from the project screens and the studio are also documented.
That said, the evidence only reaches this far. The collected records contain no release notes for open-design-v0.26.0, so what this version changed cannot be confirmed. The 102,871 stars and the momentum score of 9.9 in the research record are simply recorded values; only the momentum field of the score is filled in, and no performance measurements or behaviour-verification material is presented. From documented descriptions alone, it is also impossible to tell how far the local-first design keeps data and collaboration flows local. How far the actual functionality works can only be confirmed in the repository documentation and code.