Introduction

**Designali offers a set of beautifully crafted, accessible components and a flexible code distribution platform. It works seamlessly with your favorite frameworks and AI tools — Open Source. Open Code.

Why Designali?

• Open Code: Full access to component code, ready for modification.
• Composition: Consistent, flexible interfaces for predictable usage.
• Distribution: Share and install components through a simple schema and CLI.
• Beautiful Defaults: Beautifully designed out-of-the-box components.
• AI-Ready: Open code makes it easy for AI models to understand and enhance.

Open Code

With Designali, you don’t just consume components — you own them. Each piece of code is yours to modify, extend, and perfect:

• Full Transparency: Understand how every component works under the hood.
• Easy Customization: Adapt behavior, styles, and functionality with ease.
• AI Integration: Open access lets AI models help refine and improve your design.

Instead of wrapping and overriding pre-built components, just edit them directly — simple and efficient.

Composition

Every component in shadcn/ui shares a common, composable interface. If a component does not exist, we bring it in, make it composable, and adjust its style to match and work with the rest of the design system.

A shared, composable interface means it's predictable for both your team and LLMs. You are not learning different APIs for every new component. Even for third-party ones.

Distribution

shadcn/ui is also a code distribution system. It defines a schema for components and a CLI to distribute them.

• Schema: A flat-file structure that defines the components, their dependencies, and properties.
• CLI: A command-line tool to distribute and install components across projects with cross-framework support.

You can use the schema to distribute your components to other projects or have AI generate completely new components based on existing schema.

Beautiful Defaults

shadcn/ui comes with a large collection of components that have carefully chosen default styles. They are designed to look good on their own and to work well together as a consistent system:

• Good Out-of-the-Box: Your UI has a clean and minimal look without extra work.
• Unified Design: Components naturally fit with one another. Each component is built to match the others, keeping your UI consistent.
• Easily Customizable: If you want to change something, it's simple to override and extend the defaults.

AI-Ready

The design of shadcn/ui makes it easy for AI tools to work with your code. Its open code and consistent API allow AI models to read, understand, and even generate new components.

An AI model can learn how your components work and suggest improvements or even create new components that integrate with your existing design.