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2 years deep in design system engineering: helping teams modernize legacy frameworks and bring AI agentic workflows into how they build.
A design system is the foundation an organization runs on. AI doesn't replace that work, it speeds up how fast you can build and maintain it.
At Clerky, that meant building out the token layer and using Claude Code with Figma Console MCP to sync design tokens straight to code, removing a step that used to eat days. That also meant structuring components in Figma so an agent could generate them correctly on the first pass, and writing the AI-facing documentation each component needs to be read like data, not handed off to a human.
Super well executed 🔥
This is really interesting. The idea of designing systems so AI can actually understand and use them feels like a big part of where design systems are heading.
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I'm currently working on a packaging project that I can't share just yet, but one part of the process stood out: the hero element is a custom vector illustration, drawn by hand from the very first sketch. 🍃
Could AI have generated something similar? Probably.
However, to me, the value sits in the creative decisions behind every line, shape, and detail. That's what gives a brand its own personality and how to keep the design craft still alive.
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Document scanning is a technical process that happens in the background. Users have no way of knowing if it worked unless the interface tells them.
We designed the extraction animation to make the scanning and extraction sequence visible in real time, showing users the system actively working through their document.
The design choice was to use progressive visual feedback rather than a loading spinner. The goal is to build trust in an automated system by making it feel transparent.