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Building a design system specced for engineers and agents

Here's how we built a design system for Currents that's readable by engineers and AI agents. AI-assisted coding allows technical founders and lean engineering teams to try new languages and frameworks, write more code, and ship new designs.

Building a design system specced for engineers and agents

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Here's how we built a design system for Currents that's readable by engineers and AI agents.

AI-assisted coding allows technical founders and lean engineering teams to try new languages and frameworks, write more code, and ship new designs.

However, as adoption grows, it's time to drastically elevate the UX and UI.

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Here's how we built a design system for Currents that's readable by engineers and AI agents. AI-assisted coding allows technical founders and lean engineering teams to try new languages and frameworks, write more code, and ship new designs. However, as adoption grows, it's time to drastically elevate the UX and UI.

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Camila Mirabal, Tech writer, Arthur Objartel, Product Designer, Anton Senkovskiy, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: AI, DX, Design, Figma, LLMs Coding without design guidelines can leave teams with an inconsistent UI design and a complex feature development process.

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