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Workshops, training & speaking
The fastest way to change how your team works is to work alongside people who’ve already made the shift. We run hands-on workshops on AI + design systems, MCP workflows, and design-to-code pipelines; deliver targeted training and mentorship programs; and speak at conferences, webinars, and internal events. You don’t just get slides — you get working sessions built around your actual system.
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AI & Design Systems — with Brad Frost
A new online course from Brad Frost and Southleft. Learn how to apply AI to design systems in ways that are grounded, practical, and shaped by real work with large-scale teams.
- Co-taught by the author of Atomic Design
- Grounded in real large-scale client work
- Practical AI workflows, not trend theory
- Early access open now
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Three ways to learn with us
For design systems and platform teams adopting AI workflows, engineering orgs that want structured upskilling over ad-hoc experimentation, and event organizers looking for practitioners.
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Team workshops
Hands-on sessions built around your actual system: AI-readiness, MCP-driven design-to-code, generative UI with your own component library.
- Half-day to 2-day, remote or on-site
- Capped headcount — these stay hands-on
- Exercise repos your team keeps
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Training & mentorship
Targeted learning programs, hands-on coaching, and knowledge transfer. We place your team at the center of the learning journey — active engagement, real problem-solving.
- Multi-week training cohorts
- Pairing & code review
- Next-steps roadmap
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Speaking
Conference talks, webinars, and internal leadership sessions on AI + design systems — from practitioners, not pundits.
- Conference talks & webinars
- Internal leadership sessions
- Booked per event
Every engagement ends with follow-up materials: recordings, exercise repos, and a next-steps roadmap — and the tooling we teach on is tooling we built: Story UI, FigmaLint, Figma Console MCP.
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Recent engagements
A sustained public teaching practice — webinars, workshops, and community sessions on AI + design systems. The blog’s AI series is effectively open curriculum.
Storybook webinar
When AI Meets Design Systems
Invited by the Storybook team: why design systems give AI the context and structure it needs to be genuinely useful.
read the recap →Maven, with Joey Banks
Doing More With Your Design System in Figma
Hosted with Joey Banks (Baseline Design): flexible components and libraries, Figma MCP, Figma Make, Storybook.
Into Design Systems
Vibe Coding Design Systems — Online Jam
Spec-driven development, design tokens, and documentation sites built with Figma Make and MCP.
SuperFriendly
AI-Enabled Design Systems and Product Design
How design systems became more essential in the AI era — not disrupted by it.
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Sit in before you book
Recaps, course announcements, and workflow demos — the material we teach, published as we learn it.
AI
When AI Meets Design Systems: My Storybook Webinar Recap
A behind-the-scenes look at my recent Storybook webinar on AI-powered design systems, including the lessons, surprises, and why this conversation matters.
AI
Introducing Our New Course: AI & Design Systems
We’re teaming up with Brad and Ian Frost to share a grounded, real-world approach to using AI inside design system workflows while preserving the quality, clarity, and standards your products depend on.
AI
Rethinking Design-to-Product Workflows with MCP, Design Systems, and Generative UI
By combining Figma’s MCP server, a structured design system, and natural language UI generation, we’re not just speeding up design-to-dev, we’re rethinking the entire path from idea to product.
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Bring the workshop to your team.
Half-day to two-day sessions, remote or on-site, built around your actual design system.