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AI-native design system
Principal Product Designer, TBWA\Chiat\Day
A design system built by hand doesn't scale. Every new button state is an hour somebody has to spend, instead of an hour spent on the design decision that actually needed a person.
CHALLENGE
Token creation, variable management, and component variants (default, disabled, hover, and everything between) were eating hours that should have gone to design decisions.
SOLUTION
I connected Figma to Claude through MCP and built a pipeline that generates tokens, variables, and full variant sets automatically. The same workflow now handles accessibility testing, animation, and real-time feedback as the system evolves. Alongside it, I built a generative tool that produces on-brand imagery for the product, food ingredients and dishes, with a preset library and free-prompt creation. The client now runs it on their own.
What used to take a day now takes about ten minutes. Two AI tools, built from scratch on one engagement. That's what I mean by AI-native.
