Design Systems+AI, What’s Next?

October 10, 2023

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Are you wondering how AI can be a game changer for design systems? Could it be the final step in our quest for automatization and industrialization? Perhaps we are even reaching the end of design systems with the rise of AI?

During the webinar, our panelists shared their thoughts and advice on how AI and design systems can work together. We covered topics including how to:

  • How AI could reshape our jobs in the design system field
  • What ethical considerations should organizations consider when integrating AI into their design systems
  • A list of helpful tools and resources to use AI into design system projects
  • How could AI contribute to the scalability of design systems
  • Predictions about what design systems could look like in the next decade

We also took several questions from our audience and answered their concerns.

The webinar was held on October 10th, at 5pm UTC (9am PT, 12pm ET, 5pm BST, 6pm CEST).

Resources from the discussion

  • Tokens Studio – Figma plugin to control your design tokens from within Figma, all linked to one source of truth.
  • ClipDrop – Create amazing visuals in a few seconds
  • Figma Autoname – Figma plugin to name your layers with AI
  • Design System Concierge – Ask anything and get pointed the right way
  • Design Patterns AI – An AI-powered frontend assistant
  • v0 Dev – A generative user interface system by Vercel powered by AI. It generates copy-and-paste friendly React code based on shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS that people can use in their projects.
  • ChatBase – Custom ChatGPT for your data
  • UIzard Design Assistant – An AI-powered assistant to help you change your designs
  • Design Lint – Plugin that finds missing styles within your designs
  • AI Breakfast – Curated weekly analysis of the latest AI projects, products, and news
  • Marketing Against The Grain Podcast – Kipp Bodnar (HubSpot’s CMO) and Kieran Flanagan (Zapier’s CMO), lead you down the rabbit hole of marketing trends, growth tactics and innovation through their podcast.

Our experienced design system panelists

Tony Beltrami

CEO & Co-founder at Uizard

Tony Beltramelli is one of the wizards behind Uizard, the OG genAI design startup. Uizard is building AI-powered tools to help companies design better digital products. In 2019, Tony was shortlisted for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for the impact of his research work on applications of machine learning and AI.

Sil Bormüller

Founder at Into Design Systems

Sil (they/them) is the founder of Into Design Systems & loves to bring the design systems community together in order to learn, share knowledge, have fun & grow together. After organizing design meetups for the past 7 years, Sil founded the Design Systems conference & community Into Design Systems. The Future of Design Systems Conference is one of the biggest virtual, interactive design system conferences worldwide. As an ex-Freelance Design Systems Lead & consultant, Sil has helped numerous companies build their design systems over the past 7 years.
Sil has a big heart for the community & is a fan of exceptional experiences. In their spare time, Sil enjoys traveling and going on bike rides in the Alps.

Kathryn Gonzalez

Head of Design Infrastructure at DoorDash

Kathryn Gonzalez is the head of design infrastructure at DoorDash, where she leads design systems design, design systems engineering, accessibility, and prototyping. She was the first designer and front-end engineer at DoorDash and has been living at the intersection of design and engineering for her entire career. She loves startups, sports, and fashion and is a proud queer woman of color from the South.

Luke Murphy

Head of Marketing at zeroheight

Luke leads the Marketing team at zeroheight, where he leads the design advocacy program, and researches and educates around the future of DesignOps and Design Systems. Before zeroheight, Luke worked in design and consultancy with brands including Memrise, Mr & Mrs Smith, Cisco, Fujitsu, O2 and Microsoft.