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I'm a Product Designer and Design Engineer with 9+ years building products from 0 to 1 in early-stage startups and scale-ups, the last 6 focused on SaaS, B2B, B2B2C, and AI-first. I've built and led design teams, and for those same 6 years I've been mentoring designers on UX, leadership, strategy, and UX engineering.

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  • ilse
    ilsePoint at your app and your AI agent changes the code
    Oct 2026
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    Joined Product HuntJuly 25th, 2017

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New in Ilse: find what in your code should become part of the design system

A few people here asked how Ilse deals with bigger design systems. So far I talked about one direction: Ilse reads your tokens and components, writes a DESIGN.md, and your agent stops inventing new buttons.

The next release adds the other direction: what's already in your code and should become part of the system.

Open the new Consistency tab and Ilse reads the screen you're on:

  • Look-alikes: four links with the same classes pasted by hand, which look like one piece but aren't a component. Ilse groups them and names what's off, like "1 differs in padding".

  • Off the system: a DS component overridden with a className, a hand-written copy of a variant, a color outside your tokens, a font or size off the scale.

  • Agent review: your own agent reads that screen's code once and adds what rules can't catch.

  • Fixes show on the page before anything is sent, the same way the panel works. "Make it a component" turns a group of look-alikes into a note for your agent, with your tokens. Ignore something once and Ilse remembers it for the whole project.

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13d ago

ilse - Point at your app and your AI agent changes the code

Ilse puts a toolbar on top of the React app you already have running. Click an element and say what should change, drag to reorder, resize, or tweak spacing and colors with your project's own tokens. Simple tweaks land instantly, with no AI. The rest goes to the agent you already use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini), pointing at the right spot in the code. Pro adds test mode: Ilse walks real user journeys on her own and reports what breaks.
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