Design systems
The inconsistency tax
You are paying twice for the same button. Four cost buckets, one number from Flyeralarm, and a ninety-day sequence that does not wait for a rebrand.
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Seven talks. Thirty minutes each.
Design systems, AI readiness, and design engineering, said out loud. Arrow keys move the slides. N opens the script you can read in the room.
Design systems
Tokens that survive handoff
Paint, decision, part. Why a single source of truth is usually a drawer, and a week that makes the file and the repo agree.
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Design engineering
Design engineering is the seam
Same tools as front-end, often. A different outcome: intent that still matches when the tenth squad ships. How to staff it, or become it.
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Design engineering
A system people will actually use
A library nobody imports is a folder. A door, an owner with time, docs that sit on the component, and one retirement in the quarter.
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AI & Systems
AI readiness for design systems
Why agents average your copies, and the contract they need. The 30 percent maintenance trap, token schemas, and Code Connect.
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AI & Engineering
Agentic design engineering
The end of manual handover. Figma as an API through MCP, the planner-executor-critic loop, and the three gates before git merge.
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AI & Architecture
The autonomous interface
When software designs its own screens. Runtime generative UI pipelines, design tokens as physical constraints, and self-healing systems.
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