On Theme: Design Systems in Depth

Design system quality has a business case now (and it's ... AI?), with Murphy Trueman

April 27, 2026·37 min
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Murphy Trueman joins me to dig into something most design system teams already know but haven't wanted to say out loud: your design system isn't ready for AI. Ambiguous tokens, undocumented rules, and a lack of parity that only works because experienced humans know how to use the system... we've been getting away with it for years. AI just made the bill come due. We discuss what it actually means to treat your design system like a semantic API, how to think about governance, and why the fixes...

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