Fresh Thoughts — essays on design systems, design tokens, and agentic AI
Design systems foundations
A three-part foundation for design systems — how design decisions get articulated, how they harden into contracts, and how those contracts become a shared language across design and engineering.
Towards an agentic design system
An eight-part series on making design systems legible to AI agents — from AI-ready structure and metadata to orchestration, governance, and the human layer.
Building an AI-Ready Design System 
Towards an agentic design system 
Design system documentation as structured metadata 
Mapping your design system for AI agents 
Agent orchestration for design systems 
Encoding governance on agentic design systems 
The human layer in agentic design systems 
What building agentic systems taught me Thoughts on Design + AI
Can You Actually Systematize AI-Assisted Design Workflows?
AI prototyping powered by your actual design system, token-aware generation, component libraries that propagate updates. The whole deal.
Stop Thinking About It and Just Build It
I'd been sitting on the idea of building Figma plugins. A workflow frustration gave me the push to actually do it.
Design-to-Code Playbook
A systematic approach to implementing design with AI tools
How I collaborate with AI has evolved
From information retrieval to infraestructure building.
Figma Variable Settings for Design-to-Code Workflows
Add machine-readable metadata that tools consume directly.
Teaching AI to use your Design System
AI-ready metadata is the semantic layer that helps AI models reason about your design system.
A Claude Skill for Structured Thought Process
When you activate it, you question your assumptions. It's unopinionated about direction, but opinionated about process.
AI Ideation Framework: From Vibe to Spec Design
A structured tought process for working with AI in any context and tool.