The topic No Template Fits? Generate Your Own Awesome DESIGN.md with .NET and Ollama is currently the subject of lively discussion — readers and analysts are keeping a close eye on developments.
This is taking place in a dynamic environment: companies’ decisions and competitors’ reactions can quickly change the picture.
I found that lots of excellent DESIGN.md examples are already available in this awesome repo:
Light introduction: this repository is a curated collection of ready-to-use DESIGN.md files extracted from real websites, designed to help AI agents generate UI with better visual consistency.
Big credit to the maintainers and contributors of awesome-design-md for pushing this direction forward and making design-system knowledge easier to reuse.
That said, sometimes I want to build something not included in the repository. Especially when I am in an old-school mood and want a retro flavor that is uniquely mine. 😉
So in this tutorial, we build a fun experiment: a custom DESIGN.md generator app in C#.
If your Ollama service is already running at http://localhost:11434, you are good.
Create Services folder, then add this complete service class:
Open index.html in browser to inspect if it aligns with the design spec generated from your target page.
This demo is inspired by the idea of making design intent explicit in markdown and applying it in AI-assisted UI workflows.
If you love unusual aesthetics like I do, this is a fun playground:
Templates let you quickly answer FAQs or store snippets for re-use.
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