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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.
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Overview

What a canvas is, who can create one, and what the web app does not host.

Design desktop

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

Canvases

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

Library

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

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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.

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Where to start

  1. Sign in — canvases belong to a member account and are private to it.
  2. Ask Chat or Code to put something on a canvas. The object is created with the title Untitled canvas.
  3. Install the Design desktop app and open the board there.