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Fast and wrong is still wrong
How would your team know if the AI working on your design system got better last month? Most teams could only answer with a feeling: a demo that went well, or a screen that looked about right.
The lead article has a better answer. To know...
Some mistakes are on purpose
Agents have made consistency almost free to check. Point one at a component library and it will flag every icon, border and spacing value that doesn’t match the rule. That’s useful, and it’s also where I’d be careful.
Some of the most cons...
A decision you can say in one sentence
Issue #89
Figma has just put markdown on its canvas, and the lead article asks where a component’s reference document should live: there, or in the repo. Wherever it ends up, it will be written in plain sentences. Across the work I curate...
Who said yes to this?
This month’s Monthly Signals looks at a question that’s coming up fast: when an AI agent proposes a change to your design system, who gets to say yes? If you work alone, the answer is you. In an organisation with forty feature teams, most o...
AI agents can change your design system. Someone has to sign off.
The people building design systems with AI agents spent September making their checks honest. Nearly all of them work alone or in very small teams, so deciding who may change the rules is easy for them. In an organisation with dozens of fea...
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