What Meng To thinks about documentation
Designer and founder of Design+Code, which teaches designers code and developers design, and builder of the apps Aura and DreamCut.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Meng To has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsall the designers, they have a style guide. It's kind of like their guiding principle of their mastery of a designer. Right? You go to school, you you work on 10,000 designs, you have embedded in your blood that design language, that style guide. The design.md is basically all of that sweat, tears, and blood into one markdown file that the AI can read.
↗Meng To - Codex superpowers for designersyoutube.com 14th of 18 in this recording
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Their wordsdesign.md is powerful at the beginning, but when you're doing a lot of iterations really quickly, you don't want to always reference that. You can totally save that into your agents.md.
↗Meng To - Codex superpowers for designersyoutube.com 16th of 18 in this recording