Whiteport Design Studio, WDS

A Free and open source design workflow for designers who wants to build what matters!
WDS gives you expert AI agents who guide you through strategy and design process to make impactful deliveries for Development with AI or a physical team. WDS places the design in the center of the process and your design thinking becomes the prompts that is building the product.
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WDS brings strategic design thinking together with AI agent technology – It's free and open source!

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    Designers Are Needed More Than Ever

    In the world of AI, strategic design thinking becomes even more critical. Designers guide decisions and set the course in AI-driven product development. Your expertise in having dialogues with users and stakeholders is invaluable—especially when you let AI amplify your impact.

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    Brilliant Design Is Not a Coincidence

    Great design happens when strategy, user needs, and business goals align. It’s a thoughtful, collaborative process that brings teams together around shared vision. WDS agents are trained to amplify the skills and experience of the designer—not drown the process.

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    The Design Specification Is the New Code

    AI is awesome at generating code but struggles to change the code it made. This shifts how we work. Your design documentation becomes the source of truth—replacing months of senseless prompting with strategic specifications that guide development.

  • About WDS
  • WDS Deliverables

A Method That Unites. A Module for Design & Strategy

WDS is an AI Agent framework On the Shoulders of Giants. it creates a unified language for entrepreneurs, developers, and designers to collaborate in the AI era. Built from 25 years of UX experience, WDS assists you in strategic design leadership for any digital product from idea to polished product.

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Your Design Replaces Prompting

The framework is your thinking partner through the process. It’s flexible to suit your needs and is based on solid design practices refined over decades but adapted to the world of AI. You map user psychology and business goals. You envision the user interaction and create conceptual specifications that guide development. You transform vision into strategic design thinking. Entrepreneurs align around your insights. Developers build from your clarity. AI amplifies your expertise. With WDS, you’re not just part of the process – you’re the strategic center that holds it all together.

Powered by BMad Method

WDS is a module for designers within the BMad Method. Instead of mindless prompting, the BMad method is most effective when run in an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) like Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, or similar tools.

One Chat Leads to the Next

The Method is built to preserve AI capabilities and divide the creative conversations into dialogs that result in high-level documents. These documents then become the perfect prompts for the next step of the process. Strategy documents become the ideal context for AI to make sound decisions, and dividing the dialog into shorter sessions preserves the AI’s memory – the context window.

Built for Collaboration

Everything is saved and published for collaboration using GitHub – the same technology developers use for writing code. By moving the design process into the development environment and delivering our design in the perfect form for development, we as designers can deliver far more value than ever before. Regardless if we are stepping up and making the development in our role as designers or if we hand over and collaborate with a development team.

WDS and BMad Method is not just another tool for quick prototyping. WDS takes over when you are done fiddling and ready to build the final product!

Meet the AI Agents

WDS gives you a team of expert AI agents who become your thinking partner through each phase of the design process. Think of them as your strategic co-pilots, each bringing decades of expertise to their specialty. You stay creative and strategic. Named after the Norse Gods, as you summon them, they handle the structure and best practices with superhuman precision. Or adapt to your specific way of working!

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Saga the Analyst — Your Strategic Foundation

Saga guides you through discovery and strategy. Together, you’ll create the Product Brief that defines your vision, business goals, and success criteria. Then Saga helps you build the Trigger Map – connecting what your business needs to what users actually want. Saga asks the right questions so you think deeply about psychology and motivation, not just features.
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Freya the UX Designer — Your Design Partner

Freya transforms your strategy into tangible user experiences. She guides you through scenario mapping, page specifications, and conceptual design decisions. Freya helps you articulate not just what the interface looks like, but why you designed it that way. Your design thinking becomes crystal-clear specifications that preserve your strategic intent.
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Idunn the Technical Architect — Your Implementation Bridge

Idunn translates your design vision into technical reality. She guides you through platform architecture, data structures, and system decisions. Idunn ensures your design specifications become actionable PRDs that developers (human or AI) can execute flawlessly. No more lost intent between design and development.
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Mimir the Orchestrator — Your Wise Guide

Mimir sees the big picture. He coordinates your entire journey, ensuring each phase builds on the previous one. When you need perspective on where you are and what comes next, Mimir provides the wisdom. He’s your safety net – making sure nothing falls through the cracks as you move from idea to polished product.
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Just call their names

You summon them by just calling their names in the chat and they arrive with their unique capabilities, ready to guide you through their phase of the journey. They hand over tasks so you can start with fresh dialogs and context window as often as you need.

Conceptual Specifications: For Designers That Mean Business!

We designers love to sketch, fiddle with, and iterate and refine our designs as our thinking becomes more clear. However, at a certain point, you will be ready to build the final product. this is where the main deliverable in WDS, the Conceptual Specifications comes into the picture. In the world of AI, the specifications matters because AI can only generate consistent code your design is clearly defined!

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Experimentation is Essential

We love experimentation! Napkin sketches, whiteboard drawings, Figma prototypes, code snippets, inspiration boards, storyboards, pixel art, vibe-coded demos — all of it. This is where creativity happens. This is where ideas mature and refine. The playful creative process reaches a point when experimentation leads to something great, something we want to build and bring to the world.

Your Designs Are the Perfect Prompt

When you’re ready to move from exploration to production, your creative output has the potential of becoming the blueprint for the whole product – if you give it an effective structure. That’s where conceptual specifications come in. When we gather all your experiments in one place, defining them in the right order as user scenarios with step-by-step interaction and clear explanations – not just what you designed, but why you designed it that specific way – you give AI all it needs to make the final product reality.

The Realization: With AI, the Specification Becomes the New Code

In the world of AI development, the specifications become the product. The code is just output – generated and regenerated from your design work. Your specifications are the source of truth that gets maintained and refined over time. This is where your strategic thinking lives.

Design Once, Iterate Forever, Generate When You Need

The specifications interact closely with your design system to create a coherent experience that grows without limitations. Want to change something? Update the specifications. AI regenerates the code – clean, consistent, and aligned with your design intent. No spaghetti code. No lost reasoning. No painful refactoring. Your design work IS the product.

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Learn WDS

Master Whiteport Design Studio through our comprehensive video course. Each module includes an introduction video explainer and links to the WDS repo where you find our step-by-step lessons, practical examples, and direct links to detailed documentation. The course is currently under production, new sections will be added over time.

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Module 00: Getting Started with WDS

Module 00: Getting Started with WDS

Learn the fundamentals of WDS and get your environment set up. This module covers everything you need to know to start your journey with Whiteport Design Studio – from understanding the core concepts to installing the framework and activating your first AI agent.


Module 01: Why WDS Matters

Module 01: Why WDS Matters

Discover why traditional design-to-development handoffs fail and how WDS transforms the designer’s role from task-doer to strategic leader. Learn about the AI revolution in product development and why conceptual specifications are the key to staying relevant.


Module 02: Installation & Setup

Module 02: Installation & Setup

Get WDS installed and running on your machine. This hands-on module walks you through GitHub setup, IDE configuration, cloning the repository, and activating your first AI agent. By the end, you’ll have a fully functional WDS environment ready for your first project.


Module 03: Alignment & Signoff

Module 03: Alignment & Signoff

Get stakeholders aligned and secure commitment before starting the project. Learn the discovery discipline, create compelling alignment documents, and generate appropriate signoff documents (external contracts or internal signoff). Master the art of understanding before solving.


Module 04: Product Brief

Module 04: Product Brief

Create your strategic foundation through AI-guided conversation. Learn how the Product Brief becomes the most powerful prompt you’ll ever create – stopping AI hallucinations before they start and making your idea better through 30 structured questions. Everything happens in one environment with zero copy-paste chaos.


Module 05: Trigger Mapping

Module 05: Trigger Mapping

Connect business goals to user psychology through 5 structured workshops. Learn the proven Effect Management methodology (20+ years heritage), map both positive and negative psychological drivers, and create a visual one-page strategy map. Includes systematic feature scoring for data-driven prioritization.

WDS Webinars

Join our live webinars and watch recorded sessions for deeper insights into WDS methodology, real-world case studies, and Q&A sessions with the WDS team. New webinars are added regularly.

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WDS Jam #1: Say Hello to the New AI-Agent Framework for Designers!

WDS Jam #1: Say Hello to the New AI-Agent Framework for Designers!

Date: December 22, 2024 | Duration: 60 minutes

Join Mårten Angner for an inspiring session exploring Whiteport Design Studio (WDS), a hands-on expansion for designers ready to move their craft into the development space. Learn why documents beat prompting, how specs become the new code, and why designers lead while AI amplifies.

Key Topics:

  • The big shift: BMAD and why documents beat prompting
  • WDS workflow overview: IDE-first, visual thinking
  • Strategy foundation: Analyst agent + Trigger Mapping
  • From vision to build: specs, component IDs, design systems
  • Working with clients + stakeholders: presenting, GitHub, collaboration

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Whiteport Design Studio v4 - From Sketch to Code with AI

Whiteport Design Studio v4 – From Sketch to Code with AI

Date: October 22, 2025 | Duration: 45 minutes

Learn how WDS empowers designers to work directly in the development environment with AI agent support. Discover how to transform sketches into structured specifications, create components and design systems, and collaborate effectively with developers using shared tools.

Key Topics:

  • Why designers need WDS in the AI era
  • Working in the IDE with BMAD agent roles
  • From trigger maps to personas and user grounding
  • Sketch to specification workflow
  • Component thinking and design systems
  • Making changes safely in production

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WDS Strategy & Design Deliverables

With the help of the WDS agents you will be able to deliver both strategy and design and utilize your design skills to get a seat at the table.

  • Win Client Buy-In

    Present your vision in business language that stakeholders understand. Get everyone aligned on goals, budget, and commitment before you start.
    More about the Project Pitch
    More about the Service Agreement

  • Project Clarity & Direction

    Get crystal clear on what you’re building, who it’s for, and why it matters. Create a strategic foundation that guides every design decision.
    More about the Product Brief

  • Map Business Goals & User Needs

    Connect what the business wants to what users actually need. Identify the emotional triggers and pain points that drive behavior and design with psychological insight.
    More about the Trigger Map & Personas

  • Nail Down the Platform Requirements

    Define the technical foundation, data structure, and system architecture. Make smart decisions about what to build and how it all fits together seamlessly.
    More about the Platform PRD & Architecture

  • Design the Experience

    Turn your ideas and sketches into complete specifications with interactive prototypes. Capture not just what it looks like, but why you designed it that way and preserve your intent.
    More about Page Specifications & Prototypes

  • Create Your Design System

    Extract reusable components, patterns, and design tokens from your pages. Create consistency across your entire product without starting from scratch every time.
    More about the Component Library & Design Tokens

  • Hand Off to Development

    Package organized PRD documents with epics and stories. No more guesswork or lost design intent during implementation with AI or human developers.
    More about the Design Delivery PRD

  • New capabilities

    We are adding new sections and improvements constantly. Share your insights and feedback and take part in building something great for the future.

What our users say

BMadCode

Founder of the BMad Method

Whiteport Design Studio adds a strategic design dimension that strengthens BMad: a practical way to translate intent into interfaces and product direction. It fits the spirit of the agent framework, with expert-driven workflows where AI is a partner, not an autopilot. It’s a uniquely thoughtful addition to the BMad ecosystem, and I’m excited to see what builders create with it.

BMadCode

Founder of the BMad Method

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Get Started with Whiteport Design Studio

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    Build on Your Existing Design Skills

    You don’t need to learn everything from scratch. Your UX/UI skills and design thinking are the foundation—WDS provides the structure and methodology to amplify them.

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    Follow a Complete End-to-End Process

    From stakeholder alignment to final handoff—one complete workflow. WDS guides you through each phase: strategy, design, and delivery. No gaps, no guesswork.

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    Your Design Becomes the Blueprint

    Your design documentation becomes the new code. No more lost intent or miscommunication. AI and humans alike will love your detailed deliveries

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About us

Whiteport was found 2003 by Mårten Angner and has been successfully serving clients with sites, apps and e-commerce applications ever since. Whiteport is also an innovative agency exploring the boundries of the possible by our own digital projects.

We focus on innovative solutions, smooth interfaces, neat and minimalistic design and work according to our own uniqe development approach.

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Whiteport business is currently dormant. Normally we take intetnational projects and strategic design challenges.

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