Design Systems Unfiltered
Érica MeninThe honest reality of building and scaling design systems. No shiny UI kits or perfect documentation that nobody reads. Just raw workflows, strategies, and decisions that keep systems working in production. For the hands-on builders keeping systems alive.
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Starting to make a design system usable by AI
By now, we all know our design systems have a not-so-new consumer: AI agents.
But while most design systems were built with designers and developers in mind, AI agents weren’t exactly considered.
You can open the doors to your entire docu...
Don’t make your design system AI-ready yet
MCPs. Skills. Design contracts. Structured metadata. Harnesses. Schemas. Markdown files.
If you’re anything like me, all these terms feel a bit overwhelming, but at the same time make you think I HAVE TO try it all!!!
And chances are, at...
AI is shipping UI faster than your design system can protect it
It’s not new. Everyone is being told to build with AI. Go faster. Deliver more. That’s what efficiency means today, right?
I think this is a natural evolution now that AI is frequently on everyone’s screen. But there’s a price being paid q...
Start here: for people who stopped trusting their design system and want it back
For years I was the one building and maintaining design systems. But after a reorg (bye-bye design system team), I started consuming them for real, as a user, for the first time.
I was doing what everyone was doing at that point: learning...
I turned my biggest design system headache into my first Cursor command
If you read my previous post, you know a pattern project once haunted me for a very long time. Long enough that it became my first try at creating a Cursor command.
Where this started
Two things inspired me.
The first was a post from...
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Design systems specialist. 15+ years in design. Hand me a system that’s gone sideways and I’ll be suspiciously happy about it.
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