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Deliberate, layered, and meant to spark better thinking. This space is where we share what we’re learning, building, and occasionally unlearning along the way.

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Product Design

28 Sept, 2026

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Why designers need a harness instead of better prompting

Why designers need a harness instead of better prompting

Product Design

A product is held together by a million little decisions, many of which have become muscle memory for designers. Debprotim Roy introduces the design harness, a way to make those decisions part of how an agent works.

Studio Tooling

22 Sept, 2026

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Omni: Our tool suite that gives you a starter design system in minutes

Omni: Our tool suite that gives you a starter design system in minutes

Studio Tooling

Over a decade of product work, we have built design systems for project after project. Omni now sets up a working system for designers and agents in minutes, right from the get-go. Arjun Rajkishore walks through how he built it and how it works.

Studio Tooling

11 sep, 2026

Inside a Canvs pitch: Studio expertise augmented by agentic systems

Inside a Canvs pitch: Studio expertise augmented by agentic systems

Studio Tooling

Canvs has built its practice inside complex products. We look at how agentic workflows put that accumulated understanding to work when the ask in front of us is to rethink an existing product or imagine a new one.

Studio Tooling

2 Sep, 2026

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Making each inquiry useful to the next: How research is now non-linear at Canvs

Making each inquiry useful to the next: How research is now non-linear at Canvs

Studio Tooling

The most useful research question is often one that may not arise at the beginning of a project. Premankan Seal writes about building a persistent research system that follows questions as they emerge, draws on what earlier projects uncovered and brings evidence into decisions while they are still open.

Studio Tooling

27 aug, 2026

Building LocalKit to keep routine file jobs local

Building LocalKit to keep routine file jobs local

Studio Tooling

A client privacy constraint nudged Himanshu into building his own tool for small file jobs. He talks about how he built it and how that maps to the way he builds with agents generally.

Studio Tooling

25 Aug, 2026

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Putting the studio’s memory to work: Ambient intelligence at Canvs

Putting the studio’s memory to work: Ambient intelligence at Canvs

Studio Tooling

For more than a decade, Canvs has documented the choices and reasoning around its projects. We talk about the intelligent system we are building that is always learning and contextualizing what it picks up, bringing that history into decisions as they happen.

Engineering

21 aug, 2026

The internal software renaissance

The internal software renaissance

Engineering

Building internal tools has become faster and cheaper than it has ever been, and we've seen this internally, and we see this outside. Debprotim writes about what's changed inside the studio in the last six months as Canvs itself went agentic.

Product Design

21 Aug, 2026

Adapting an existing design system for dark mode

Adapting an existing design system for dark mode

Product Design

Hamsika took an existing design system, already running across tens of files and hundreds of live flows, and explored what building a dark mode for it would take.

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Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk

Broad brush strokes on a canvas

Build things that last

We work on serious products and partner with teams who think long-term. If that sounds like you, we should talk