Better Design
May 5, 2026 · via hackernews.com
Collection of Shadcn design systems integrated with AI coding assistants.
Enables designers and developers to rapidly prototype with pre-built component systems using AI-assisted code generation through Cursor and Claude.
Better Design is an open-source collection of 28 distinct design systems built on top of the Shadcn/ui component primitives, each offering a different visual language and aesthetic direction. The core value is that instead of starting from a blank Shadcn slate or spending weeks customizing tokens, you can drop into a fully realized system — and critically, it ships with MCP (Model Context Protocol) support for Cursor and Claude Code, meaning AI coding assistants can actually understand and apply these systems intelligently.
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