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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 16/09/2026

Thanks for the ping! I shipped an MCP tool called "audit-my-design-system", see state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app/ai and it works really well! Also see this prior art for your poc: github.com/sanity-labs/... github.com/christophhde...

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Use this report with AI tools · State of AI in Design Systems

Read this report with an AI assistant: the markdown twins, a prompt to paste, the MCP server, the raw data, and the tools this page registers itself.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 07/08/2026

(the study ships with its own MCP server: point your assistant at it and it can read the whole corpus, compare your design system to the state of the art, and draft a roadmap)

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 07/08/2026

AI-ready design systems have stopped asking models nicely 🫣 Polaris: “You cannot trust your trained knowledge” 🫡 Primer: “CRITICAL: CALL THIS FIRST” 🙅 shadcn: “NEVER fetch raw files from GitHub manually” discover 150+ techniques used in 20 design systems: state-of-ai-in-design-systems.netlify.app

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State of AI in Design Systems · July 2026

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

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 21/07/2026

It's a great complement to the @designtokens.org spec, especially for the "meta of design tokens", as in: explaining how a set of tokens is structured and works (spacing system, typography scales...)! Thank you PJ for the amazing work!

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 24/06/2026

Ask and you shall receive one at the next SeattleJS!

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 24/06/2026

Say hi if you see me!

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 23/06/2026

🛬 landing in sfo for figma #Config26 and excited to hang out with all of you nerds hit me up for @designtokens.org stickers

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SeattleJS @seattlejs.com · 13/05/2026

Our May meetup is coming up tomorrow night! Swing by Just The Tap to learn about: - Design tokens for scaling styling systems, from design tokens W3C CG co-chair @kaelig.fr - Surviving the AIpocalypse as a dev, from Jordan Bain We'll also be raffling a @cascadiajs.com ticket! 🎟️ RSVP 👇

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SeattleJS: Web Tech Talks - May · Luma

🎉 Get ready to learn and connect at SeattleJS! 🎉 Prepare for an evening filled with fun, networking, and learning. Whether you're a seasoned developer or…

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Ben Callahan @bencallahan.com · 06/05/2026

Gathering some interesting data for this episode with @kaelig.fr! One of the questions: "As AI agents and automation tools produce more content, design, and code at scale, what are your biggest #designsystem concerns?" Answer today to join us tomorrow at Noon E → bit.ly/answerTheQue...

Bar chart showing survey results for the question 'As AI agents and automation tools produce more content, design, and code at scale, what are your biggest design system concerns?' Results: Inconsistency accumulating faster than we can detect, 63.2% (36); Losing the feedback loops that inform system evolution, 59.6% (34); The system being used incorrectly or out of context, 56.1% (32); New patterns emerging that we can't see, 54.4% (31); Other or N/A, 10.5% (6).

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 04/05/2026

Design system friends: answer The Question (takes 2 min)! Your responses will help shape the episode's discussions. Thank you 🙏

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Donnie D'Amato @donnie.damato.design · 01/05/2026

And just yesterday @kaelig.fr joined the show to speak about his process behind engineering a high-quality component without writing a single line of code. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lror...

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Special Agents w/ Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent | Wireframe Live

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 01/05/2026

a week ago, i wrote about how taste & judgement fit in design system agentic workflows since then, top design system and ui infra teams reached out 🤯 we’re exploring roles mixing AI + craft + scale + design + engineering 🚀 dm me if you're building something similar! www.kaelig.fr/design-syste...

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Building design system components with agent teams

What I learned building an 8-agent pipeline that produces production design system components from Figma.

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PJ Onori @pjonori.com · 22/04/2026

I didn't want to share this yet because it's still so rough, but given new specs are starting to show up, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring: designsystemdocspec.org I'm working on a standard schema for design system documentation. I've been using it for my own work. It doesn't suck.

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Design System Documentation Standard 0.1 — DSDS 0.1

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 22/04/2026

I built an agentic pipeline that takes a Figma file and hands back a production-ready React component in a couple of hours. Output is design-system-team-grade. In a few spots I think the pipeline made better calls than I would have! www.kaelig.fr/design-syste...

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Building design system components with agent teams

What I learned building an 8-agent pipeline that produces production design system components from Figma.

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James Nash @cirrus.twiddles.com · 31/10/2025

Now that the @designtokens.org format specification has reached its first, *stable* version, I decided to have a look back at my own journey of getting involved in the DTCG and contributing to that spec... cirrus.twiddles.com/blog/2025/10... #DesignTokens #DesignSystems #standards

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My DTCG journey

A look back at how I got involved with the DTCG and played a small part shaping the format specification

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maxvoltar @maxvoltar.be · 30/10/2025

A few years ago I designed the original logo for @designtokens.org. Recently they asked me to refresh it: simpler, more versatile, and blue (the original color of links). The new logo builds on the old one, keeping the connected core while refining it for any size or use.

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Storybook @storybook.js.org · 03/06/2025

Storybook 9 is here! ▶️ Interaction tests ♿ Accessibility tests 👁️ Visual tests 🛡️ Coverage reports 🚥 Test widget 🪶 48% Leaner ✍️ Story generation 🏷️ Tag-based organization 🌐 Story globals 🏗️ Major updates for Svelte, Next.js, React Native, and more! Let’s dive in!

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Sam @samkapila.com · 27/04/2025

Bookshop has free shipping today (US only), so if you haven't grabbed the print version of my book, today might be a good day to order it. bookshop.org/p/books/incl...

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Inclusive Design Communities

Check out Inclusive Design Communities - <p>What does it mean to be a member of a community? And how do we ensure that our communities-from classrooms to workplaces to meetups-are welcoming to all who...

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 04/04/2025

Something something... Pun with "high" in it.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 04/04/2025

How high can you go?

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 04/04/2025

This number is very high

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 26/02/2025

Slack's down and I don't have a job to make the most out of the outage... 😞

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 25/02/2025

Unemployment is keeping me busy! Last week I attended my first @seattlejs.com event and TC39 workshop. This week: @conveyux.bsky.social, starting with Heidi Adkinson's talk about PKM for designers.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 21/02/2025

> I promise we're a friendly bunch I'll be the judge of that 😅

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 21/02/2025

Fwiw: at @netlify.com I instructed Copilot and Cursor to always modify @storybook.js.org stories files and test suites when making component changes, following a specific template. It was very effective! Have you tried something like that before?

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 21/02/2025

Heading to my first @seattlejs.com meetup — can't wait to learn about Java and Scripting. Maybe it'll take off one day?!

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 21/01/2025

No joke, I've played entire jam sessions with brush drumsticks on pizza boxes and pans... some of my best memories of university 🎓 (I never graduated 😅)

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Design Tokens Community Group @designtokens.org · 17/01/2025

Hope everyone’s new year is off to a good start! 🧵 A thread of some recent DTCG news:

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Joey Banks @joeyabanks.me · 14/01/2025

I love design systems, but phew, design tokens used to *really* intimidate me. They vary by team and get complex fast! But after two years of working closely with engineers, I now see them as one of the best tools we have for bridging the gap between design & code and bringing teams together. 🎨🧑‍💻

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 14/01/2025

The team at @getdx.bsky.social is looking for a senior/staff design engineer: getdx.com/careers/desi... Do not pass on this opportunity if you're passionate about developer productivity and happiness 👩🏻‍💻

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Senior Design Engineer

Learn more about the Senior Design Engineer role at DX and apply.

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David Darnes @darn.es · 13/01/2025

Follow up! Just over a week ago I asked you all what the title #DesignEngineer meant to you, and *a lot* of you responded. I took some time to collate these thoughts, chew on them and provide some resources y'all kindly shared:

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Is 2025 the Year of the ‘Design Engineer’?

What is a Design Engineer and is it the right name. Let's explore this role and it's contributions to Design Systems.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 13/01/2025

Continuing on my path to making the web better, I’m now looking for an organization who needs help operationalizing excellence in frontend and product design so we can ship world-class experiences together 🚀

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 13/01/2025

Last week marked the end of my journey at @netlify.com. For the past two and a half years, I had the privilege of collaborating with top industry leaders who share my passion for the open web, open-source, and a diverse frontend ecosystem.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 26/12/2024

I confirm Raycast has a very good text replacement feature, with all the basics and formatting.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 25/12/2024

That looks so yummy! What are those balls next to the pigs in blankets?

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Brad Frost @bradfrost.com · 18/12/2024

📣 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! I'm excited to announce that we're launching a new online course called Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOD2... This deep-dive course will teach you all you need to master design tokens. Learn more and preorder here: designtokenscourse.com

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Subatomic: The Complete Guide To Design Tokens Course Trailer

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 18/12/2024

Join the discussion on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4244...

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Design Token-Based UI Architecture | Hacker News

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 12/12/2024

NEW POST Design tokens are fundamental design decisions represented as data. Andreas Kutschmann explains how they work and how to organize them to balance scalability, maintainability and developer experience. martinfowler.com/articles/des...

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Design Token-Based UI Architecture

Describing established patterns for organizing design tokens and practical approaches for automation

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Kyle Lambert @lambert.fun · 15/12/2024

Love this post from @davidhoang.com on “small teams” We had a team of 4 when we took Webflow Apps from 0 to 1. Of course we added a ton of people to help successfully launch but it wouldn’t have ever seen the light of day without the initial small team! www.proofofconcept.pub/p/small-team...

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Small teams

Issue 224: Why the mentality of lean and small always wins

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Stef Walter @stephaniewalter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Some fun with the overflow:clip CSS property! @ishadeed.com always has the best “deep dive into a CSS” tutorials. He explores the CSS overflow property, explains the issues with overflow-hidden, and where you can use overflow:clip for nice “out of the box” effects. ishadeed.com/article/over...

Code and example of a overflow-y clip CSS property that hides a cat imagine at the bottom of the box, but lets it get out of the box on the right of it.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 10/12/2024

You are: - in the Seattle area - working on design systems? - free tomorrow night? Come over, @jina.social and I are hosting a dinner at mine! 🏙️ Kirkland (near Juanita Beach) 🕰️ 6-9pm Spots limited, RSVP at kaelig@deloumeau.fr or on the Design Systems Slack.

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Kaelig @kaelig.fr · 10/12/2024

I've been using AI to accelerate frontend tasks I'm an expert on, and it's going so well that I've grown over confident in AI's coding capabilities. When I then used AI to solve a problem I'm very unfamiliar with, the code I submitted for review was embarrassingly sloppy 😓 Sorry, reviewers 😕

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Netlify @netlify.com · 06/12/2024

Over the last few days, we've released a three-part guide on advanced caching for e-commerce sites, building on @astro.build's Storefront template, and adding a @tur.so database. This video shows the end result and introduces how all the pieces fit together. youtu.be/MZsOPzQ7is8?...

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Advanced caching with Astro + Turso

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Netlify @netlify.com · 03/12/2024

Deploying is hard. Fixing failed deploys doesn’t have to be. @taylorbar.net breaks it down:

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