About Sandeep

Sandeep Baskaran is a design engineer based in Bengaluru, currently a Senior UX Designer at IBM's Z Infrastructure organization where he helps enterprises modernize legacy systems. He builds in the open — automating workflows, writing about design, AI, and productivity, mentoring aspiring designers, and leading design communities in Chennai and Bengaluru. Design Mode is one of those projects.

Why this exists

Most design-to-code workflows look like this: open a mock, take a screenshot, paste it into an agent, then hope it guesses your CSS correctly. It works often enough that we tolerate it, but the round-trip is brutal — and the agent never sees the real page state.

Design Mode skips the mocking step. You inspect a real element on a real page in your real browser, change it visually, and send the exact diff to your agent over MCP. The agent gets ground truth instead of a guess.

Built in the open under MIT. Read the source, file an issue, or open a PR.