shipping static sites, or building on a standard design system, the Figma MCP server is probably doing great...writing this as a takedown. The plan was simple: Figma-to-code is overhyped, the demos are slick, and on most
I Built a Complete Design System in Two Days Using AI. I always assumed building a design system required at least two people: a designer and
this piece is a taxonomy, not a tool: treating Figma-to-code as an integration project splits the problem...reliable connectors, deterministic extraction of design tokens, and staged validation - comparing rendered...Watch for emerging MCP-style adapters for major design systems, tooling that…
A beginner’s guide through the AI pipeline
bar chart showing minutes saved per day using Figma Dev Mode features, from section statuses at 22 min to MCP server at 6 min What is Figma Dev Mode and Why Does It Matter in 2025? Getting Into...Real Numbers: What Teams Actually…
lessons 2 to 5 of the thirteen it takes to build a design system. Lesson 1 was the first article in this series, Introduction to design tokens. Lessons 6 to 13 come in later articles. The
mechanics. With MUI you install and import: With shadcn/ui the CLI copies the source into your project...override: That ownership changes how you customise. shadcn's button.tsx lives in your repo and uses class-variance-autho...add one directly: The…
they were uneven is what led to this project. Design systems have made real progress on visual and structural fronts. Design tokens have a W3C community standard. Component anatomy,...easily readable by MCPs. Open-source libraries like shadcn and RadixUI even…
variety of UI libraries, component systems, and design system approaches. No matter the stack, every product...eventually reaches the same stage: You need a design system. Not just a collection of buttons and inputs,...most solutions force a trade-off. Adopt…
In this post you’ll read about three things: what a token is, how to put together the token name, and how the names make a tree and not a list. Three lessons, about an hour, before you open any tool.
Component libraries and design systems: shadcn/ui, Material UI, Radix, Storybook, Figma-to-code and design tokens.
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