Give your AI agent design taste + prevent generic AI design
Refero MCP connects your agent to a curated library of real product interfaces and user flows. It studies before it builds — and the output looks designed, not generated.
Refero 4.0Design research companion with 6k user flows & AI search
Launched on May 29th, 2025
Refero 3.0Save time, find inspiration: 66,000 proven web & iOS designs
Launched on June 20th, 2024
Refero 2.0Explore real-world designs from the best products
Launched on August 17th, 2023
ReferoGet inspired by the best examples of product design
Launched on March 15th, 2023
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Refero is highly praised for its extensive library of real-life design inspirations, making it a valuable tool for designers and developers. Users appreciate its intuitive navigation, effective filtering, and the ability to explore a wide range of UI patterns. A maker from
highlights its advantage over platforms like Dribbble, especially for small teams. Many users find it time-saving and beneficial for creative research, with some expressing interest in future updates and enhancements to the platform.
Awesome concept, great value, convenient navigation and search. It's nice that part of the functionality is available without registration. I created an account, but feel really grateful that I could try so much things before that.
When I started using the app, there was just one major thing that I still don't understand. When I'm filtering references, I get the list of separate screens, but they're not grouped in whole user experiences. For example, I opened the onboarding tour in "Drops" product, clicked the right arrow button, and saw the screen of "AirBnB". I clicked the right button one more time, and it was "Drops" again, but I wasn't sure if these two screens go one after another, or not. When I kept swiping right, I saw more "Drops" screens mixed with even more different product references. Changing the sorting settings didn't help. Am I missing something, or it's made on purpose?
And one more question. When a product, which reference is added in Refero, changes the design, how does it get reflected in your library? Does it get added as a second reference, or the existing one gets replaced? And how often such updates happen?
Thank you!
Thank you so much for exploring Refero and providing such valuable feedback. The issue you highlighted regarding navigation between screens in our search results is indeed valid. We're in the process of developing a feature that will group screens by site or application. We believe this will significantly improve the search experience.
As for updates in product design within our library, we are actively tracking these changes and replace with new designs. We plan to eventually introduce a 'design history' feature, where users will be able to view both current and previous designs.
Feedback like yours is essential in refining our platform. Please always feel free to share your thoughts or questions.
Finally I would not have to spend hours looking at 100 different websites to get design ideas for a new product. Cheers @mishkadoing
Will this be updated for each website design as and when the actual product is updated? Also, how do I request my products for a listing on the platform?
Hi! Nice idea and product! I wish you a good luck! As a feedback: pls add some call-to-action button in the block with the websites, because scrolling is too long and you start be nervous about "Where are you", trying to scroll to the end of this block but it's constantly scrolls more and more
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We built Refero MCP because most AI-generated interfaces still look generic. Models are great at code and logic, but product design is a different skill. They usually don’t know which patterns work, how real products structure flows, or what makes an interface feel thoughtful.
Refero MCP gives AI agents access to 125,000+ real product screens and 8,000+ user flows, so instead of designing in a vacuum, they can study real products before generating UI.
The idea is simple: better references lead to better design output. Less guessing, less generic UI, and more interfaces that actually feel designed.
@chrismessina Thanks for trying it out (legend 🙌). In the demo we actually let the agent overthink a bit. It calls a lot of tools and does a bunch of research before answering. The MCP server itself is fast. Works perfect inside Claude Code or Codex.
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Tried this with a "node-based editor" prompt and the results were solid
couple of small things: - explore next suggestions might be buttons so i don't have to copy-paste it - downloadable report would be very useful. like a PDF or .md report that i can pass to the agents. - to be able to pass my existing UI or website and get suggestions would be cool
Congrats on the launch Mike! This is a big step toward solving the ‘generic UI’ trap.
Are you planning on allowing teams to upload their own private design systems to the MCP? Having an agent that knows specific brand rules plus 125k industry benchmarks would be the ultimate workflow 👏
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Interesting approach using MCP to inject design context how are you handling auth on the server side? Curious whether clients authenticate per-request or whether there's a session/token model, since that changes a lot about how agents can be scoped to specific design systems.
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So cool! Was looking for this when writing a report, does it work for agents that help in ppt/doc design?
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