The design system just became middleware
The gap between what your system says and what it does used to be a minor annoyance. Now it's a structural fault.
AI21
Your design system might be AI-ready. Your organisation probably isn't.
The technical preparation is well underway. The organisational questions it creates are a different problem entirely.
Building for coherence, not compliance
Lessons from Baldurs Gate 3 on contracts, governance, and judgment at the edges
We're getting better at the workaround
On Figma's code-to-canvas announcement, and why smoother translation might be making the structural problem harder to fix
AI doesn't need your design system to be perfect. It needs it to be honest.
Why documenting your mess matters more than fixing it
Your design system has opinions. They're just not being enforced
Why validation is the missing layer between documentation and adoption
When conversation leads: Rethinking design systems for a world where intent comes first
How conversational interaction is changing what design systems are actually for
The AI feedback loop: When design systems train the models that critique them
AI is learning from our design systems, and quietly reshaping them in return. Here’s what that feedback loop means for consistency, drift, and control
The bidirectional design system: When code talks back to design
How AI is shifting design systems from one-way handoffs to continuous, two-way sync – and what that means for how we build products