Home›Companies›Designbase

Designbase

Y Combinator LogoW23
Active
artificial-intelligence
developer-tools
design-tools
 
https://www.designbase.com/

Design and build great interfaces

Designbase is the interface design tool that gives early teams design and development superpowers. Create stunning interfaces, immediately available as code, regardless of resources.
Designbase
Founded:2021
Team Size:3
Location:
Group Partner:Nicolas Dessaigne
 

Active Founders

Alexandru Antihi, Founder

I spent the last 17+ years designing and building successful products and design systems for Palantir, Two Sigma, Mosaic.tech, Checkout.com, Thomson Reuters, Bitdefender and many other Fortune 500 companies.
Alexandru Antihi
Alexandru Antihi
Designbase
 

Ryan Xie, Founder

Ryan is a co-founder at Blocksfabrik. At Facebook, he led a team driving strategic growth, and at Palantir he led several teams including core search, pharma, and user research.
Ryan Xie
Ryan Xie
Designbase
 

Company Launches

{🟦} Blocksfabrik: Create your own design system without all the work

Hi! Alex and Ryan here - we’re super excited to launch Blocksfabrik!

TLDR: We built a way to create design systems that stay in sync across design and code. Teams are using us to design better interfaces and develop them as fast as using an off-the-shelf component library, but with the flexibility of a bespoke design system and none of the tech debt.

Ready to ship better product experiences? We would love to help, so please book a slot for a quick chat here, or reach us directly via email at alex@blocksfabrik.com or ryan@blocksfabrik.com

The Problem

Creating your own design system takes a ton of effort and experience that is hard to come by. And once they’re built you’ll have to maintain them in design and code indefinitely. Off-the-shelf component libraries get you off the ground, but are disconnected from design and hacking around their limitations becomes a liability as your product grows.

What if you can design and build as fast as with a component library, but with the flexibility and quality of a bespoke design system?

The Solution

Configure your design system in the Editor and Blocksfabrik will take care of the rest — creating the component code, Figma assets, and documentation. It’s like having a full-time design system team, without needing the budget.

How It Works

(1) Define your design tokens in the Editor (including color palette, sizes, fill styles, etc) and the specifics of your interface components (from shapes to interaction patterns).

(2) Publish your design system, and you’ll get a private NPM package, Figma assets, and documentation that are all in sync.

(3) Since Blocksfabrik creates components for both Figma and code, your Figma assets will share the same properties, and behave identically to the components in code. The designer → developer handoff becomes fast and seamless.

Need to update something? Simply make edits and publish a new version that you can start using in Figma and code.

How We Can Help You

If you or someone in your network is struggling to build a product interface or design system, we’d love to help! Please book a quick chat here, or email us at alex@fabrikant.tech, ryan@fabrikant.tech

Thank you!