Hamster for Designers
Your designs, built as intended.
Hamster captures design intent in structured briefs so engineering builds what you designed, not their interpretation of it.
The problem
Design intent gets lost in translation.
Handoff fidelity breaks down
You hand off a polished design with detailed specs. What gets built is close but not right — the spacing is off, the interaction is wrong, the edge case is ignored. The gap between design and code is where fidelity dies.
No visibility into implementation until code review
You have no idea how your design is being decomposed into tasks or what is being built until a PR appears. By then, fixing misinterpretations means rework for both you and engineering.
Feedback cycles are slow and expensive
Design review happens after implementation, not during scoping. Each round of feedback means code changes, re-testing, and delayed launches. The cost compounds with every missed detail.
Hamster captures design intent for builders.
Write a brief that captures your design decisions, interaction patterns, and edge cases. Developers and AI agents build from the same structured spec.
Briefs that capture the full picture
Designers can contribute to briefs that capture design intent alongside product requirements. The brief becomes a shared artifact that both design and engineering reference.
See how your designs become tasks
When a brief is broken into implementation tasks, designers can see exactly how their design will be decomposed into engineering work. Flag scope gaps or misinterpretations before code is written.
Design specs that reach the code
When AI agents build from Hamster tasks, your design intent is part of the structured context they follow. Design system references and component specs travel with every task.
How designers use Hamster
Design to implementation handoff
Before
Hand off Figma files with annotations. Hope engineering reads them. Discover misinterpretations during code review. File bug reports for design deviations.
After
Contribute to the Hamster brief alongside product. See the task breakdown before coding starts. Flag scope gaps or misinterpretations during planning, not after implementation.
Design system consistency
Before
New features get implemented with one-off components instead of design system tokens. You discover the inconsistency weeks later during a design audit.
After
Hamster briefs include design system references and component specs. Tasks explicitly call out which tokens and components to use. Deviations are caught at spec time, not audit time.
Feature design collaboration
Before
Create mocks, hand off, and wait. Discover issues in code review.
After
Brief the feature collaboratively. Design and engineering align on requirements before anyone writes code.
Close the gap between design and code.
Hamster keeps your design intent intact from brief to pull request.
See how Hamster works