# Mode Product Overview Status: pending Alex review. ## Product definition Mode helps product/design teams make production-aware UI changes against a real product surface, codebase, and design system. Mode is not a generic app builder, prompt-only coding tool, or blank-canvas prototyping tool. ## Core promise Designers can work in the real product: inspect live UI, use existing components, make visual changes, and move useful work toward an engineer-reviewable output path. Engineering review remains part of the workflow. ## Primary users - Product designers working on production UI. - Design leads on lean teams with visible design QA or polish bottlenecks. - Design engineers and code-adjacent designers. - Product leaders who need concrete product/UI changes rather than static mockups. - Engineering reviewers who need normal review control over generated or designer-proposed changes. ## Best-fit product context Mode is strongest where the team has: - an existing software product; - a real codebase; - reusable UI components or design-system discipline; - frequent front-end iteration; - design QA, handoff, or visual-polish friction; - enough engineering process that reviewable output matters.