Design System Office Hours

Davy and PJ dig into the messy state of software quality in 2026… from visual regression tests that look wrong to the growing need for shared skills, layered checks, and actual human judgment when everyone is shipping faster than they can review.

Are designers working in code, or directing agents that write it for them? Davy and PJ dig into the shifting role of Figma, the skills designers need to guide AI-assisted work, and why changing one color token can turn into an afternoon of CI, docs, and downstream consequences.

We discuss, you guess it, whatever ai-native means in the world of design systems, including that start of a new phase of PJ and Davy's design system spec that originated from this episode!

Davy and PJ debate how automation, visible chaos, and human judgment can help teams move fast without turning the design system into an expensive junk drawer.

Davy returns from Config with a backpack full of new Figma features. Also our annual discussion of were these releases for us?