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The books are
the core curriculum.

Durable reading surfaces for the school, supported by courses, workflows, field notes, and lab examples.

Reading list

Three living books. One connected practice.

The Agentic Designer explains the operating model. Claude Code for Designers turns it into hands-on agent work. Open Design shows how to run the practice locally as design-as-code.

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Agentic Design Fundamentals

The Agentic Designer

How AI agents are transforming product design.

Who it is for
Readers evaluating agentic workflows across research, prototyping, critique, systems, and production.
What it teaches
Design-agent loops, team implications, critique habits, workflow design, and the shift from prompts to operating systems.

The operating model for product designers, design leads, and builders who need to understand what changes when agents join design work.

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Claude Code for Designers

Claude Code for Designers

A designer's guide to AI-assisted workflows.

Who it is for
Product designers, prototypers, and design-minded engineers learning agent-assisted workflows.
What it teaches
Briefing Claude Code, creating prototypes, reviewing implementation, shaping design systems, and using agents for repeatable design work.

A practical guide for designers who want to work directly with coding agents without turning it into a programming manual.

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Design Systems for Agents

Open Design

Local-First, Agent-Native Design-as-Code — The Open-Source AI Design Alternative

Who it is for
Product designers adopting local-first AI, design engineers building brand-compliant workflows, and leaders evaluating the stack for their teams.
What it teaches
Open Design setup and architecture, design skills and brand systems, artifact generation and export, plugins, MCP integrations, multi-agent teams, and adoption.

A practical field guide to running local-first, agent-native design-as-code workflows without surrendering brand quality or vendor independence.

The authorMehran Mozaffari
We must close the gap between visual thinking and syntax execution. Claude Code is the bridge that lets designers write code like they design.

Mehran builds and operates applied AI systems that connect models to real workflows, real users, and measurable outcomes. He writes hands-on field manuals for designers, engineers, and product builders navigating the shift to agentic, model-driven workflows.

Mehran Mozaffari

Author, Sydney, Australia · AI Operator & Systems Designer

Living books

Released, not published.

Maintained like software: updated regularly, tagged with versions, and accompanied by notes that explain what changed.

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Updated weekly

The field moves every week, and so do the books. New chapters, revised workflows, and corrected guidance ship on a weekly cadence instead of waiting for a second edition.

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Versioned like software

Each book has a release page, just like a software project. Every release is tagged with version notes describing what changed, what was added, and what was rewritten.

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Built in the open

The full source lives on GitHub. You can read the change history, open issues when something is unclear or out of date, and watch the repository to be notified of new releases.

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Never finished, always current

A printed book about agentic design would be stale before it reached you. A living book treats publication as a starting point: the content keeps pace with the tools and workflows it teaches.