Refero

Design research for humans and AI

4.9•15 reviews•

1.6K followers

Design research for humans and AI

4.9•15 reviews•

1.6K followers

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Real product screens, flows, and patterns to help teams and AI make better design decisions.

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Refero MCP

Launched this week

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.

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Maker

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Hey Product Hunt, I’m Mike, founder of Refero.

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.

Try it live: https://demo.refero.design/ or integrate into your agent https://doc.refero.design/mcp/getting-started

Would love your feedback <3

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4d ago

Raycast

@mishkadoing this is pretty slick — but the reasoning step took a long time! Why is your inference so slow?

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3d ago

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Maker

@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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3d ago

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

Great tool, planning to use it later again!

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3d ago

Pinnacle

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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2d ago

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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2d ago

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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3d ago

AutonomyAI

Played around with the demo and it is super useful. If only for UI research. Very cool! shared it with our PM. Best of luck!

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3d ago

Previous Refero Launches

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

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!

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