# I built an AI workspace for our design team

I built the shared repository, moved our existing work into it, and tested the setup.

[View this work](https://www.shkuratovdesigner.com/cases/design-lab)

## AI work needed a shared workspace

We needed to ship faster with AI. But separate setups made it hard to track tasks, review work, and build together

## I planned for a system that could grow

I chose one repository for web, iOS, and Android so agents could adapt features across platforms. Shared skills and tasks would help it grow with the team and better models.

## One workspace, shared context

Our design system, templates, tasks, and agent instructions now live together. Everyone builds from the same context.

## We started building the workflow

I set up the folders and agent instructions. A colleague and I started moving and testing templates for all three platforms.

Next: turn meeting transcripts into tasks for agents to build. Our goal is a design factory.

## More product decisions, less manual work

I helped the team spend less time drawing screens. We describe ideas by voice, make product decisions, and review what agents build.

The design factory is still in progress. My lesson: build for better models without starting over.

## Diagrams

Four disconnected repositories: designer/onboarding-flow, product/pricing-page, engineer/ios-settings, and designer-2/web-dashboard. Broken links surround missing shared context. Every non technical person had its own repo and context.

One GitLab design-lab repository with shared agent instructions. Shared tokens feed Web, iOS and Android, each with components, a template and feature folders. Shared context includes Skills, Management, Meetings, Memory, Tools, Connections and Agents.

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## More work and contact

[Evgeny Shkuratov · Product Design Engineer](https://www.shkuratovdesigner.com/)

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