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Design mode

We're excited to introduce Design mode, a new Nowa AI mode that does one thing only: design. 🎨 It asks about your users and your style before it draws a single screen, and it never touches logic or real data.

How It Works ✨​

  • 🎨 Pure Design, Sample Data, No Logic Until now, Agent mode did everything at once: the design, the logic and the data. That works, but when an agent thinks about all of that at the same time, the design often suffers. So design got its own mode. Design mode won't write logic and won't use real data. Its whole job is how your app looks and feels, and how people move through it.

  • ❓ It Asks Before It Draws Tell it about your app, and before it draws anything, it asks a few questions, the way good designers do:

    • Who will use the app? The screens change completely depending on who's holding the phone.
    • What look do you want? Playful, serious, minimal: the whole style follows from this.
    • How should people move through it? Where they land, what they tap next, where they end up.

  • 🧭 The Workflow We Suggest

    • Start a project in Design mode: describe your app the way you'd describe it to a friend.
    • Answer its questions: they're all about design and how people will use the app, nothing about code.
    • Ask for a few versions if you're unsure: it makes 2 or 3 versions of your main screen and puts them on the board. Pick the one you like, and it deletes the rest and designs your other screens in that style.
    • Make one part real: when it's done, it suggests next steps. Keep working on the design, or pick one part of the app to make real, and Nowa switches to Agent mode to build that part.

  • 🧪 Nothing to Break There's no logic behind anything yet, so you can play around without worry. Move stuff around and change your mind. Nothing breaks.

Learn how to use it in Design, Plan and Agent modes, and read the full story in Introducing Designer Mode on our blog.

➡️ If something feels off or confusing, tell us! Click the ? icon to chat with us directly, or email us at team@nowa.dev. Happy building!