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Talks, workshops, courses, and interviews on design systems and AI — always from shipped work, never from slideware. If your team or event wants the same, let's talk.

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Recent talks, workshops & the course

The same workflows we run with clients — live demos, real systems.

  1. 01 course

    AI & Design Systems — with Brad Frost

    A co-created online course on applying AI to design systems in ways that are grounded, practical, and shaped by real work with large-scale teams.

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  2. 02 webinar

    Storybook: When AI Meets Design Systems

    Why design systems give AI the context it needs to be genuinely useful — for the Storybook community.

    read the recap →
  3. 03 workshop

    Maven: Doing More With Your Design System in Figma

    Hosted with Joey Banks (Baseline Design) — flexible components and libraries, Figma MCP, Figma Make, and Storybook.

  4. 04 session

    Into Design Systems: Vibe Coding Design Systems

    Spec-driven development, token exports, and AI-built documentation sites — live at the Online Jam.

  5. 05 talk

    SuperFriendly: AI-Enabled Design Systems and Product Design

    How design systems become the leverage point for AI-era product design.

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Interviews & press

“AI just turns the lights on.”

Adaptive infrastructure, the discipline AI exposes, and why the invisible parts of a design system — structured context, metadata, behavioral intent — matter most.

TJ Pitre on Design Systems and AI — Design Systems Collective
“AI-ready design systems.”

Structured context, metadata, token architecture, and the shift from component libraries to adaptive, AI-enabled infrastructure — with Arseni Harkunou.

AI-Ready Design Systems w/ TJ Pitre — Substack interview

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Context-Based Design Systems

A published, evolving model for design systems in the AI-driven product lifecycle — the framework behind most of the talks above, with a one-year “Revisited” follow-up testing it against reality.

the original → revisited, one year in →

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What we bring to your stage or team

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AI + design systems, told through shipped work and live tooling — Figma Console MCP, Story UI, and real client systems on screen.

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Hands-on sessions built around your actual system, not a demo repo. Design and engineering in the same room, working the same workflows.

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Strong opinions, honestly argued: context beats autonomy, parity beats handoff, and your design system is about to become an API.

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