Dev Tools · 3h ago
Google's DESIGN.md format solves half the design problem
Google open-sourced DESIGN.md, a YAML-based format for AI agents to read and write design tokens, plus a CLI for linting and export. But the format assumes design intent already exists, leaving 0→1 teams without a path to discover it. A proposed "design chain" adds direction and mockup steps before tokenization.
Meridian48 take
DESIGN.md is a useful tool for mature teams but overpromises for early-stage products where the hard part is deciding what to build, not how to format it.
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