About the framework
About the framework
Compound Design is Danilo do Amaral's own framework for working with AI in design and code. AI-native: made for people and agents to read with the same care. The name is a thesis. Most work gets harder over time: each new thing negotiates with the old ones. Here it is the opposite. Each thing learned becomes an artefact that makes the next one easier — like compound interest.
What the framework is
A four-step method (plan, do, review, compound) and the artefacts it produces: data-backed articles, a catalogue of design-engineering skills with verified licences, and the CLI and MCP that put all of it in your agent's hands. AI-native means every part exists in two forms, one to read on screen and one for an agent to consume, and that the framework itself was built with the method it describes. All open: anyone can read, cite and reuse it.
The philosophy: compounding
The loop has four steps: plan, do, review, compound. Anyone working with AI already does the first three. The fourth is what separates compounding from merely producing: what was learned becomes something reusable and findable — an article, a skill, a rule the system itself starts to check. Here, every fix that repeated became a check that breaks the build; every decision became a record; every good third-party skill entered the catalogue with credit. Most of the time goes to planning and reviewing, not typing. It is an open philosophy: the code, the decisions and the rules are in the repository for anyone to copy.
Who makes it
Danilo do Amaral is the author of Compound Design. A Design Engineer at Pitang Labs, five years into the intersection of AI, design and development. Postgraduate in UX & UI at EBAC and in UX Engineering at PUC Minas. He designs and builds prototypes, internal tools and agents, and writes about what he learns along the way.
How to contribute
Comment on the presentations, propose a skill for the catalogue or an article. Content marked as draft is open for review.
Licenses and sources
State of Prototyping Spring 2026 data belongs to UX Tools, under CC BY 4.0. The texts in the framework are by Danilo do Amaral.