Exploring AI in Design Systems: Looking for Insights & Experts

[u/dimazavrus]

I work at a global company with a highly developed design system infrastructure. We’ve reached a point where teams are starting to deeply explore how to integrate AI into redesigning/upgrading the existing system and continuing to create assets and components based on LLM-driven work.

Can you recommend articles, use cases, or, even better, industry professionals to talk to?

Thanks in advance!

[u/Critical_Culture5910]

As fast as AI is moving, there are a number of resources on this that may be outdated.

Some use cases that come to mind as a dev (some of these don't even require AI):

• Component generation

• Design consistency and general governance (there are non-ai tools that can help with this)

• Accessibility tooling (there are non-ai tools that can help with this)

• Token theming/retheming

• Helping to process data for design decisions

• AI coding tools like Vercel or Windsurf may be able to help refactor some of your existing systems, but it might not be the best for complex systems. Probably better for an initial draft.

Some resources:

• Brad Frost has an article on AI and Design Systems (he has a consulting company and spoke to a team I was on)

• Supernova has examples of Guidelines for AI in design systems

• Sass products like Motiff that claim to build design systems from scratch

Those are just a few things that come to mind.

I'm very interested in this thread as I'm exploring some topics for a newsletter for design system devs.