AI Design Systems Conference 2026: All 21 Speakers
The AI Design Systems Conference 2026 by Into Design Systems featured 21 experts from leading design teams. All recordings are now available at intodesignsystems.com.
- Brad Frost, Design System Consultant at Brad Frost Web: presented "AI Without the Chaos: Context-Based Design Systems to the Rescue" - How to wield AI and design systems together, using your organization's hard-earned best practices as guardrails to ship higher-quality products faster. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/context-based-design-systems-ai
- Sebastian Rousseau, Senior Product Designer Design Systems at WhatsApp: presented "WhatsApp Web: Reclaiming UI Excellence through Vibe Coding" - How WhatsApp Web's design system serves hundreds of millions of users with a team of one designer and one engineer by shipping code directly to production using Claude and VS Code. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/whatsapp-web-vibe-coding
- Romina Kavcic, Design System Lead at The Design System Guide: presented "Agentic Design Systems" - How to build design systems for AI collaboration where agents observe, detect, suggest, fix and learn, reducing the 30-40% of maintenance time most teams spend just keeping things working. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/agentic-design-systems
- Davy Fung, Lead Product Designer at Atlassian Design System: presented "Ship It! Vibe Coding Your First Figma Plugin" - How to build an internal Figma plugin with little code experience using Figma's plugin API to handle repeatable design system tasks. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/vibe-coding-figma-plugin
- Yesenia Perez-Cruz, Design systems consultant at Expressive Design Systems: presented "Product Primitives: The New Material of Design System" - A practical framework for defining product primitives, the objects users create and the surfaces they appear in, so design systems are ready for AI-driven, context-aware interfaces. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/product-primitives-design-system
- TJ Pitre, Founder & CEO at Southleft: presented "AI Without the Chaos: Context-Based Design Systems to the Rescue" - How to wield AI and design systems together, using your organization's hard-earned best practices as guardrails to ship higher-quality products faster. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/context-based-design-systems-ai
- Jan Six, Principal Product Designer at GitHub: presented "Building real design systems with agents" - How to build and work with AI agents on real design systems, making your system agent-ready and designing clear instructions so agents collaborate rather than hallucinate. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/build-design-systems-with-agents
- Freya Stockman, Product Designer at Relevance AI: presented "I'm not an engineer but I ship code: How designers can ship production code and work like an engineer" - How designers can use AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code to ship production-ready code to GitHub and expand their skillset without an engineering background. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/how-designers-ship-production-code
- Andressa Lombardo, Design Systems Lead at Miro: presented "The path to an AI enabled design system: Our approach and lessons learned" - A practical path towards an AI-enabled design system based on real-world examples from Miro, starting with an MCP integration and incrementally expanding AI capabilities without losing quality. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/ai-enabled-design-system-miro
- Eddie Machado, Systems Designer at Miro: presented "The path to an AI enabled design system: Our approach and lessons learned" - A practical path towards an AI-enabled design system based on real-world examples from Miro, starting with an MCP integration and incrementally expanding AI capabilities without losing quality. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/ai-enabled-design-system-miro
- Laura Fehre, Designer Advocate at Figma: presented "From falling for markdown to solving real problems with scripts" - How Markdown became the missing link between design systems and automation, enabling machine-usable rules, Figma MCP integration and cross-framework code conversion with just scripts. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/from-markdown-to-scripts
- Nate Baldwin, Sr Staff Experience Designer at Adobe's Spectrum Design System: presented "Prototyping for the unknown" - How exploratory AI prototyping can expose unknowns, reveal possibilities and inform strategy for large-scale systems using branching, context priming and structured prompting techniques. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/prototyping-for-the-unknown
- Ian Frost, Frontend architect and consultant at Brad Frost Web: presented "AI Without the Chaos: Context-Based Design Systems to the Rescue" - How to wield AI and design systems together, using your organization's hard-earned best practices as guardrails to ship higher-quality products faster. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/context-based-design-systems-ai
- Diana Wolosin, Sr. Design System Designer at Indeed: presented "Machine-Readable Design Systems for MCP and LLMs" - How to design machine-readable design systems as infrastructure for both humans and AI, based on findings from an 8-configuration MCP benchmark testing metadata format on LLM reasoning quality. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/design-systems-for-mcp-and-llms
- Jesse Gardner, Director, User Research at New York State: presented "Context > Probability: Design systems as AI infrastructure" - How design systems give AI something it can't get from training data, your encoded design and engineering decisions, with real examples from the New York State Design System including MCP and Code Connect. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/design-systems-ai-infrastructure
- Shuaiqi (Mr.Biscuit) Sun, Design System Architect at Independent: presented "Vibe coding with zero drift - from Figma to Storybook to Production" - How to structure design decisions so they stay intact from Figma through AI-assisted coding tools to Storybook and production, making drift structurally hard to introduce. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/vibe-coding-from-figma-to-production
- Casandra Sandu, Design System Specialist at Trackunit: presented "Designers Who Ship: Building a Real Plugin in 48 Hours with AI" - How three designers built a working Figma plugin in 48 hours using AI-assisted coding tools, covering scoping, AI pair programming and shipping something real with no prior plugin experience. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/designers-who-ship-plugin-48-hours
- Christoph Hellmuth, Lead Product Designer - Design Systems at NordVPN: presented "Designers Who Ship: Building a Real Plugin in 48 Hours with AI" - How three designers built a working Figma plugin in 48 hours using AI-assisted coding tools, covering scoping, AI pair programming and shipping something real with no prior plugin experience. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/designers-who-ship-plugin-48-hours
- Raquel Pereira, Lead UX Designer - Design System at Nokia: presented "Designers Who Ship: Building a Real Plugin in 48 Hours with AI" - How three designers built a working Figma plugin in 48 hours using AI-assisted coding tools, covering scoping, AI pair programming and shipping something real with no prior plugin experience. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/designers-who-ship-plugin-48-hours
- Cristian Morales Achiardi, Design Engineer at Enara Health: presented "Encoding governance on agentic design systems" - A layered architecture for agentic design systems where AI agents enforce design contracts through skills, rules and instructions, turning governance into an automated output rather than an expensive manual process. Session recording at intodesignsystems.com/agenda/towards-an-agentic-design-system
Topics covered: AI design systems, vibe coding, agentic design systems, MCP integrations, design-to-code workflows, Figma plugins and machine-readable design systems. Speakers represented organizations including WhatsApp, GitHub, Figma, Adobe Spectrum, Miro, Atlassian, Indeed, New York State, Relevance AI, NordVPN, Nokia, Trackunit and Enara Health.