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Cortex Design is where visual work lives. A canvas is a board of frames, notes, and options that you host from a Chat conversation or a Code session and then open in the Design desktop app to work on. There is no Design mode in the web shell: the browser creates and lists canvases, the desktop app is where you edit them.

Canvases

Frames, notes, options, and the host binding to Chat or Code. Default title Untitled canvas.

Design desktop

Install the working UI, open a board, edit frames and notes.

Library

Components, pages, and tokens you reuse across canvases. Thumbnails are uploaded.

Troubleshooting

Where a canvas lives, why the browser will not edit it, and a board that is not listed.

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The shape of the product

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Start from Chat or Code

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Sign in

Canvases are member objects.
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Host a canvas

Ask Chat — lay these three screens out on a canvas — or ask a Code session to draw the architecture. The design tools create the board, titled Untitled canvas, and write frames to it.
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Open it on desktop

Install the Design desktop app, sign in, and open the board. Edit frames, notes, and the Library drawer there.

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Design and the other products

Chat and Code can host a Design canvas through their design tools; Bot does not receive those tools. A Design library item and a file in Chat’s Library are different objects that share a word.

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Next

  1. Canvases — what lives on a board and how it is hosted.
  2. Design desktop — install the app and open your first canvas.
  3. Design library — components, pages, and tokens.