Patrick Morgan
Patrick Morgan is an individual software/product designer, writer, and solo creator—not an organization or company. He builds useful, well-crafted things across design, code, writing, and strategy; his current independent work includes Unknown Arts, a newsletter for creative builders in the age of AI, and Design Studio, an open-source AI prototype sandbox.
At a Glance
- Designers
- Product managers
- Creative builders working with AI
- B2B and enterprise SaaS teams
- +1 more
AI Tools by Patrick Morgan
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Design Studio
Open Source Prototyping Sandbox
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Latest News
Design Studio v0.1.2 released with improved Mermaid/Pele rendering, on-demand diagram loading, font-aware redraw behavior, and rendering/accessibility regressions.
Design Studio v0.1.1 released as a leaner foundation with simplified Git-based maintenance and release workflows.
Design Studio v0.1.0 launched as the first public beta for building interactive screens, documents, diagrams, and canvases with coding agents.
Morgan published “Inside My AI Prototyping Environment,” a video tour of the AI-assisted prototyping tool he built at Sublime Security and the ideas that led to Design Studio.
Products & Services
An open-source, local AI prototype sandbox for designers and product managers who build with coding agents. It combines interactive prototypes, wireframes, Mermaid diagrams, Excalidraw canvases, Markdown documents, reusable design systems, product context, and agent guidance in a folder the user owns. It is MIT licensed and can publish static viewing sites.
Patrick Morgan's newsletter and field guide for designers and product managers building with AI; the official site describes it as a newsletter for creative builders in the age of AI and reports more than 7,000 subscribers.
A deterministic pattern generator for writing, publishing, and site visuals, published in Morgan's Lab.
A split-flap text animation built from Geist Pixel and Geist Sans, published in Morgan's Lab.
Market Position
Design Studio is positioned as a middle layer between disconnected AI-generated prototypes and the complexity of prototyping directly in a production application. Its differentiation is local ownership of code and context, reusable design systems, multiple artifact types, and agent-native workflows. Conceptually it overlaps with Figma/FigJam-style design collaboration, code-first prototyping environments, and AI coding/prototyping tools, but emphasizes a portable, open-source workspace rather than a hosted design editor or a proprietary agent.
Leadership
Founders
Patrick Morgan
Product designer and software designer. His career includes Brand Strategist at Leo Burnett (2012–2013), Design Engineer at American Express (2013–2016), Product Designer at Tenable (2017–2018), Senior Product Designer at Signal Sciences/Fastly (2019–2021), Lead Product Designer at JupiterOne (2022–2023), and Staff Product Designer at Sublime Security (2025–present). He is also the creator of Unknown Arts and Design Studio.
Executive Team
Patrick Morgan
Independent software/product designer, writer, and creator
Based in Los Angeles. Currently Staff Product Designer at Sublime Security; creator of Unknown Arts and Design Studio. His prior roles include American Express, Tenable, Signal Sciences/Fastly, JupiterOne, and Leo Burnett.
Founding Story
Morgan describes a non-linear path through music, theater, advertising, code, design, and writing, ultimately following his interest in turning ideas into useful things. Design Studio grew out of a problem he encountered at Sublime Security: AI prototypes were fast but isolated from the product, while prototyping directly in production was too complex; he built a middle ground that keeps prototypes, design systems, context, and agent workflows together, then released it openly.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The publicly documented independent projects are an open-source MIT-licensed tool and a newsletter. Design Studio is distributed freely; the public pages do not describe a paid Design Studio plan or usage-based pricing. Unknown Arts offers subscriptions, but the inspected pages do not establish a price or paid-revenue model.
Pricing Tiers
Released openly under the MIT License; users run it locally and choose their own repository and hosting.
Target Markets
- Designers
- Product managers
- Creative builders working with AI
- B2B and enterprise SaaS teams
- Cybersecurity product teams
- Designers and product managers exploring product ideas with coding agents
- Low-fidelity exploration and rapid interactive prototypes
- Product-flow, onboarding, dashboard, and settings prototypes
- Design-system and component-guided prototyping
- Keeping product briefs, context, decisions, and open questions alongside prototypes
- Diagramming journeys and systems and arranging screens, notes, and documents on a canvas