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Your Design System Isn't a Style Guide Anymore — It's AI Infrastructure

March 4, 2026

Design systems work is shifting from team coordination to individual orchestration. I spent half a day setting up Figma MCP and realized my role had fundamentally changed. Here's how AI infrastructure enables designers to audit systems in minutes, auto-generate documentation, and operate at higher, more impactful leverage—plus the setup journey and breakages along the way. Hear my hard learned lessons!

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Tags XShaped, Designsystems, aiorchestration, designleadership, productdesign, FutureofWork, designoperations
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It's Only Through Doing That You Become: How X-shaped people are made — and how teams can grow them

February 26, 2026

I once had six weeks to find a job or be kicked out of the country. No safety net. No fallback. So I did whatever it took — learned tools I'd never touched, pitched work I wasn't qualified for, talked to anyone who could get me there. I didn't know it then, but that pressure was building a shape.

It's only through the act of doing that you become. You can't read your way into being X-shaped. You can't workshop your way there either. You become it by being thrown into situations where you have no choice — and figuring it out anyway.

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Tags XShaped, FutureofWork, DesignLeadership, AI Experience Design, ImmigrantStory
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