Built an agentic pipeline that takes a Figma file and hands back a design system component in a few hours.
Output is design-system-team-grade. In a few spots I think the pipeline made better calls than I would have!
Wrote a thing about it 👇
A lot of people don't know this about me but despite building design systems for 10 years I've only built 2 components (tho i've done much more token architecture work).
I hope this helps others feel less like a fraud. You can be successful without having all of the hard skills.
design systems have stopped asking models nicely.
🫣 Polaris: “You cannot trust your trained knowledge.”
🫡 Primer: “CRITICAL: CALL THIS FIRST”
🙅 shadcn: “NEVER fetch raw files from GitHub manually”
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