Developer puts four AI design agents in a Slack-style chat room to turn briefs into Figma variants

A product designer built Switchboard Studio, a tool for the Flip the Switch hackathon, to generate design options directly within team chat. Users post a design brief in a chat room, and four AI agents handle the work: a brief agent, a designer, a critic, and a keeper. Together they produce Figma variants, a critique, a recommendation, and a logged decision, while the human retains final say. The author argues that keeping ideation inside existing conversation tools keeps requests, options, and rationale visible to the whole team. The post also walks through setting up Switch, a platform for hosting AI agents in chat, using the Switch Console desktop app and Docker.