2026
- What I Heard at Into Design Systems AI 2026Four themes from eighteen talks — and the through-line nobody named on stage but everyone was circling.
- The Autonomy SliderWe've been designing agents as if autonomy were a property of the system. It isn't. It's a control — and most products haven't shipped one.
- Sketching Is the Last Slow Step Worth KeepingEvery part of design got cheaper and faster in the last three years except the thinking. Sketching is the practice that protects the thinking, which is why it survives.
- 9 Things I've Learned Using Claude for Design Systems WorkMost AI-and-design-systems advice stays comfortably abstract. These nine concrete patterns are what actually changed how I work.
- Context Engineering Is the New Information ArchitectureThe most important design question this decade is one we already know how to answer. We just called it something else.
- Your Next Coworker Is an Agent. Designing for That.Most “AI design” is still about chat windows. The actual systems being built look like small organizations — and the org chart is the interface.