Ben Tossell launches Design Words to guide AI agents

Ben Tossell, the creator of Ben's Bites, has launched Design Words, a web-based utility designed to help non-technical users build precise prompts for AI web design. Located at bensbites.com/design-words, the tool addresses the difficulty non-designers face when trying to explain layouts, components, and aesthetics to AI agents, which often default to generic boilerplate templates. Users can select visual styles, shuffle layouts, and preview the results before copying the generated text instructions directly to their AI agents.

Tossell built the application over 2 days of on-and-off work, spanning 38 development sessions and 116 prompts. He initiated the project by brainstorming in Pi and Claude Fable 5.1, later transitioning to Factory's Droid to build the production version. To refine the user experience, Tossell orchestrated a complex multi-model workflow. He utilized Claude Fable 5.1 as an orchestrator to manage up to 20 concurrent subagents, including Codex GPT Luna High subagents for automated browser testing and an Opus 5 subagent for critical critiques.

The development relied heavily on open-source models available in Droid Core, such as GLM 5.3 and Deepseek v4 Flash, which Tossell noted offer more tokens than models like Astra or Fable. To keep the AI agents aligned without bloated context, Tossell created a design.md file to define the site's own design system. During the prototyping phase, the system generated 11 initial versions, with version 8 serving as the primary foundation. The final product was deployed using the hosting tool here.now and mapped to the main domain via a Cloudflare Worker proxy.