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We say it on the record.
Talks, workshops, courses, and interviews on design systems and AI — always from shipped work, never from slideware. If your team or event wants the same, let's talk.
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Recent talks, workshops & the course
The same workflows we run with clients — live demos, real systems.
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podcast
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Code & Pixels: AI & Design Systems
Episode 31 with Adekunle Oduye and Kelly Harrop — thirty-five minutes on AI and design systems in the hybrid design-technology space.
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session
conference agenda →
Into Design Systems: AI Without the Chaos
Context-Based Design Systems to the rescue — with Brad Frost and Ian Frost at the March 2026 conference: your organization’s hard-earned best practices as guardrails for shipping with AI.
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webinar
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zeroheight DS Live: Context-Based Design Systems
Preparing design systems for an AI-driven future — the framework, live for the zeroheight community.
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course
aianddesign.systems →
AI & Design Systems — with Brad Frost
A co-created online course on applying AI to design systems — 16+ hours of lessons, community jam sessions, and demonstrations, grounded in real work with large-scale teams.
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webinar
read the recap →
Storybook: When AI Meets Design Systems
Why design systems give AI the context it needs to be genuinely useful — for the Storybook community.
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workshop
session details →
Maven: Doing More With Your Design System in Figma
Hosted with Joey Banks (Baseline Design) — flexible components and libraries, Figma MCP, Figma Make, and Storybook.
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Into Design Systems: Vibe Coding Design Systems
Spec-driven development, token exports, and AI-built documentation sites — live at the Online Jam.
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SuperFriendly: AI-Enabled Design Systems and Product Design
How design systems become the leverage point for AI-era product design.
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Interviews & press
“AI just turns the lights on.”
Adaptive infrastructure, the discipline AI exposes, and why the invisible parts of a design system — structured context, metadata, behavioral intent — matter most.
“AI-ready design systems.”
Structured context, metadata, token architecture, and the shift from component libraries to adaptive, AI-enabled infrastructure — with Arseni Harkunou.
“From Flash to Figma to whatever comes next.”
The evolution of digital production — how dynamic, system-driven workflows replaced hand-built pages, and where AI takes it from here.
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Context-Based Design Systems
A published, evolving model for design systems in the AI-driven product lifecycle — the framework behind most of the talks above, with a one-year “Revisited” follow-up testing it against reality.
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What we bring to your stage or team
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AI + design systems, told through shipped work and live tooling — Figma Console MCP, Story UI, and real client systems on screen.
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Hands-on sessions built around your actual system, not a demo repo. Design and engineering in the same room, working the same workflows.
<podcasts-and-panels>
Strong opinions, honestly argued: context beats autonomy, parity beats handoff, and your design system is about to become an API.
// speaking inquiries: inquiries@southleft.com
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