A journal on design systems architecture, design engineering, design tokens, typography and color theory.
Thinking Systems
Enforcing design system adherence when agents write your UI
Teams are writing DESIGN.md files and MCP servers to keep AI coding agents on-brand. Recent research suggests that context files do not reliably change what agents produce. Here is what worked for us, and the class of violation no conventional linter can catch.
Your Figma variables are not a design token system
True design tokens are platform-agnostic, transformable, and work across multiple environments. They transcend tools. Read on to discover when a solid set of Figma variables may not be enough.