Maybe it’s less about machine-legible artifacts and more about where humans stay in the loop.

Why my design system starts in code, and how I build, check and maintain the Figma library.

If a design system’s components are slow to interact with, so are any apps built with it.

Intent logos, colors, typography, iconography, foundations, and components.

Components, styles and guidelines for building Interfere products.

A comparison of how two design systems handle the humble text component.

Agentic Brand Systems, a Little Plains research note.

How I scaled Scribe’s design system to help serve over 6 million users.

Notes on the semantic layer of a design system.

Every design system team is having the same conversation right now, and nobody can back it with numbers.

Treat a folder of markdown files as records in a database—the pattern behind Obsidian Bases, Notion-style workflows without lock-in, and more.

How we measure design system adoption and how the graph keeps going up anyway.

Latent flaws, hindsight bias, and operator adaptation. Offering product teams a framework for system safety.

If you don’t want your AI agent to choke on your design.md, stop putting your entire design system into one file.

A classification that forces teams to document implementation logic for sustained product consistency.

A field study of how 20 open-source design systems and 6 platforms make themselves readable to AI agents.

Avoid the fraught model that will set your design system back.

You’ve taught agents your design system. You still don’t know whether they’re following it.

Browse independent design system analyses from popular websites. Drop one into your project as design reference for your coding agent.

An open source design system that is fully customizable and agent ready.