When shadcn/ui took off, it worked beautifully with AI agents, and then every site started to look the same. shadcn’s answer is Create, a new way to start a project with a design system that’s actually yours.
I had access for about a day before launch. Try it on ui.shadcn.com. The video was sponsored by Inbound, which is built on the new components.
Summary
- Presets bundle a style, an icon set and a font as a starting point.
- You pick the component library: Radix, or Base UI, which had just reached 1.0.
- Style, base color, theme color, font and radius are all adjustable.
- Press R to randomize everything, and keep pressing until something clicks.
- New projects start from Next.js, TanStack Start or Vite, with pnpm, npm, Yarn or Bun.
How to apply it
- Start new projects in Create instead of the default theme so your UI doesn’t look generic.
- Randomize a few times, then lock in the font, color and radius you like.
- Pair it with a design-capable model. One prompt gave me a homepage I liked, built only from shadcn components.
- You own the components and code, so keep customizing after setup.
Get the next test the day it’s out.
