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The approve button needs an owner

October 2026 in review

The approve button needs an owner

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Submission guidelines

What we publish, what we look for and what happens after you submit.

Submission guidelines

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Oct 8

AI agents can change your design system. Someone has to sign off.

September 2026 in review

AI agents can change your design system. Someone has to sign off.

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“You don’t fix the output, you fix the system” — Cristian Morales Achiardi on agentic design…

On contracts over libraries, why more context made the agents worse, and what happens when the designer becomes the bottleneck

“You don’t fix the output, you fix the system” — Cristian Morales Achiardi on agentic design…

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Who Checks the Thing That Checks

August 2026 in review

Who Checks the Thing That Checks

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Aug 5

The Job Nobody Is Hiring For Yet

July 2026 in review

The Job Nobody Is Hiring For Yet

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The System Arguing With Itself

Monthly Signals: June 2026 in Review

The System Arguing With Itself

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Governance becomes an output

Cristian Morales’ talk at Into Design Systems 2026 built a complete infrastructure for agentic design systems and made the case that…

Governance becomes an output

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Jun 18

The Honest Reality

What to do when the organisation is not ready, the structural trap design system teams fall into and what is actually achievable in the gap

The Honest Reality

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Jun 11

Intent Over Value

The token architecture that makes multi-brand design systems scale without exponential complexity

Intent Over Value

Shane P Williams

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Design Systems Advocate. At the intersection of Brand, UX & UI. Passionate about design, tech and digital. Founding Editor at www.DesignSystemsCollective.com

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