--- title: Design by hand. Code by agent. | daily.dev description: CSS Studio is a browser-based visual CSS editor in early access that lets designers adjust styles, layout, animations, and content using GUI controls, then... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/design-by-hand-code-by-agent--hmij1vyou twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Design by hand. Code by agent. | daily.dev og:description: CSS Studio is a browser-based visual CSS editor in early access that lets designers adjust styles, layout, animations, and content using GUI controls, then... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/design-by-hand-code-by-agent--hmij1vyou og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/hMIj1vyOU.png og:image:alt: Design by hand. Code by agent. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Design by hand. Code by agent. **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary CSS Studio is a browser-based visual CSS editor in early access that lets designers adjust styles, layout, animations, and content using GUI controls, then syncs changes to a local AI agent that writes the edits directly into source code. Features include an animations timeline for @keyframes, CSS variables propagation, DOM editing, spring easing design, gradient editor, and color picker. It is a one-time purchase from the creators of Motion. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css), [#ai-assisted-development](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-assisted-development) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/design-by-hand-code-by-agent--hmij1vyou) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Design by hand. Code by agent.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/design-by-hand-code-by-agent--hmij1vyou","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/design-by-hand-code-by-agent--hmij1vyou"},"datePublished":"2026-04-09T16:41:22.234Z","dateModified":"2026-04-09T16:41:44.290Z","description":"CSS Studio is a browser-based visual CSS editor in early access that lets designers adjust styles, layout, animations, and content using GUI controls, then...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cd48ffa6b8b7da68af6254cf19c205c5?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/cd48ffa6b8b7da68af6254cf19c205c5?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/design-by-hand-code-by-agent--hmij1vyou","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"webdev,css,ai-assisted-development","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Design by hand. Code by agent."}]} ```