GPUI Kit Design Guides

The guide is references/design-guides.md. It is a requirement, not inspiration. Read the guide file itself before doing UI work. Do not answer from this page, from an existing screen in the codebase, or from training data.

If the file is missing, fetch https://gpui-kit.com/docs/design-guides.md. The guide is a verbatim copy of that page, so its link to ./coding-guides.md means the Coding Guides in the gpui-kit skill (or https://gpui-kit.com/docs/coding-guides.md).

How to read it

Read the whole guide for a new screen or a redesign. For a narrow change, read "Design thesis" and "Start from the task" first, then the section for the change. Sections, in order (grep -n '^## ' references/design-guides.md):