Open Design, the Free Open-Source Claude Design: Websites, App Screens and Decks Without Burning Your Claude Limit
Claude Design draws from the same usage limit as Claude Code, and a full deck uses more of it than a typical message. Open Design is a free, open-source alternative with 99,000 GitHub stars that runs on the model you choose, DeepSeek included. What it makes, the 151 brand styles it ships with, and how to set it up.
Claude's own page for Claude Design says it plainly: "Larger requests, like a full deck or design, use more of your limit than a typical message." And that limit is shared. Design work draws from the same pool as the rest of your Claude use, Claude Code included, so an afternoon of slides and landing pages can leave you rate limited when you sit down to code.
Open Design is a free, open-source alternative (Apache 2.0) that has passed 99,000 stars on GitHub. You describe what you want and it builds the website, the app screen or the slide deck in front of you, in the style of a real brand if you like. The difference is the model: you pick it, so it can be DeepSeek, a model running on your own computer, or any provider you already pay for.
What it makes
| What | What you get |
|---|---|
| Websites and landing pages | A working single-page site you can click through, for desktop or mobile. |
| App screens | Mobile and desktop app screens as live, clickable prototypes. |
| Slide decks | 15 deck templates and 36 themes, exported to PowerPoint, PDF or HTML. |
| Dashboards and emails | Live dashboards and email marketing templates. |
| Images | 93 prompt templates for marketing images. |
| Animated video | Your idea as a motion-graphics MP4, in 16:9 or vertical 9:16 for reels and TikTok. |
| Brand styles | 151 design systems from real brands, including Apple, Nike, Airbnb, Stripe and Spotify. |
Everything comes out as real files you keep: HTML, PDF, PowerPoint, ZIP, Markdown and MP4.
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