Over the past few months, we've been experimenting with AI coding tools like Cursor, Augment, and Copilot for prototyping. The results convinced us to build something more systematic: a prototyping platform that transforms how our entire design team works.
We created a dedicated prototyping platform that bridges the gap between design ideas and functional prototypes. At its core, it's a GitHub repository that packages our Spring design system into AI-friendly whatsapp number list conventions, complete with educational materials and Webflow Cloud deployment infrastructure. The vision was simple: enable any designer to go from concept to shareable prototype in under an hour.
Rather than using our existing production codebase to start, we built this as a separate repository partly for speed (no complex build processes slowing down experimentation), and partly for AI optimization given the current performance expectations of frontier models. Modern models excel at commonly used web patterns like Next.js, React, and Tailwind, while our custom design system conventions require additional fine tuning.