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Essays on design systems, accessibility, and AI-driven UX. Written here, and syndicated to Design Systems Collective and Bootcamp.

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Design Systems Collective · Mar 2025 · 8 min read

From Design Systems to Design System Agents

How DSI evolved from a smarter checker into a broader vision for design-system governance.

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AI UX · Enterprise UX · Design Systems

Users Trust the Source Before They Trust the Answer

What I learned designing enterprise AI for financial researchers: the hard problem is not making the model right. It is making a probabilistic answer safe to act on when being wrong costs you your reputation.

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Design Systems · AI · Figma

Agent-Ready Design Systems: What I Learned Writing 15 Articles About It

Your design system has two users now. One of them cannot guess. Everything I have written and built this year, in the order the argument actually happened.

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Design Systems Collective · Aug 2026

650+ Google Material 3 Button Variants + Microsoft Fluent 2 Mappings in One Figma Component

How one Figma component replaces 650+ Material 3 variants, preserves Fluent 2 behavior, and supports 144,000 configurations.

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Design Systems Collective · Aug 2026

The Last Design System Designer

AI can enforce design system rules, but automating junior work may remove the path that creates future system leaders.

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Design Systems Collective · Jul 2026

I Built a Design Review Skill. The Hardest Rule Was Teaching It to Say “I Don’t Know.”

It scored my broken component 14. Then its self-audit found the same failure it was built to prevent.

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Design Systems Collective · Jul 2026

Convergent Deprecation: Deprecation Does Not Terminate When Your Consumer Is a Generator

On July 28, 2026 the Model Context Protocol publishes a specification that does something design systems have never done for their own primitives. It

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Bootcamp · Jul 2026

Kimi K3 Just Topped the Code Leaderboard. Here Is the Test That Actually Matters to Designers.

Design System Fidelity, a runnable test for whether an AI coding agent respects your system, not just whether its code runs. On July 16, 2026,…

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Design Systems Collective · Jul 2026

I Asked Claude to Fix Its Own UX Using CLAUDE.md and DESIGN.md. It Failed.

A reproducible experiment that uncovered a missing layer in AI-readable design systems.

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Design Systems Collective · Jul 2026

The Design File Is No Longer the Source of Truth

Why Storybook Is Becoming the Executable Layer of Modern Product Systems

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Design Systems Collective · Jul 2026

AI to Agentic to Autonomous to You

We stopped chatting with AI. Now we manage it. Here’s the rest of the ladder.

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Bootcamp · Jul 2026

The Motion Envelope: 30 Years After Flash, Figma Motion Still Cannot Say Why Anything Moves

Keyframes record how pixels move and nothing else. The Motion Envelope makes every animation declare its purpose, and a verifier proves the compiled…

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Design Systems Collective · Jul 2026

The Token Structure That Survives Five Products (Google Uses It Too)

It is the same three-tier system Google runs across Android in Material 3. But the reason to build it changed this year: your design system quietly…

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Bootcamp · Jun 2026

AI Can Generate the Flow. It Cannot Question the Experience.

A few months ago, I generated an onboarding flow in 4 minutes. It looked good. Clean screens. Logical steps. The right components in the right places.

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Design Systems Collective · Jun 2026

From Design Files to Living Product Systems

I left thinking we had been using the wrong mental model for product development.

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Design Systems Collective · Jun 2026

How I Use Claude as a UX Architect

In the first article of this series, I introduced a concept I call Experience Drift, what happens when requirements, design artifacts, and components drift apart.

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Design Systems Collective · Apr 2025

Everyone Is Learning to Prompt. Nobody Is Learning to Think.

We are getting better at talking to AI, but worse at deciding what to build.

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Design Systems Collective · Jun 2025

Your Design System Has Two Users Now. You Only Documented It for One.

Human contributors and AI agents both read your system now. Most teams only document it for one.

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Design Systems Collective · Oct 2025

How Figma Could Tap Into MCP

My journey, imagination, and a practical guide. Tokens go out of sync; here is a way through.

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Design Systems Collective · Jun 2025

Figma Finally Has Native Slots. Here Is the Intelligence Layer On Top.

Every design system eventually hits the same invisible wall. Here is what is on the other side.

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Bootcamp · Jun 2025

Why Are Navigation Apps So Hard to See With Polarized Sunglasses?

A real-world accessibility failure most designers never test for, and how to fix it.

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Design Systems Collective · Sep 2025

Design Systems for the Next Era: Flexibility, Accessibility, and AI

Where design systems go next, and how flexibility, accessibility, and AI reshape them.

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Design Systems Collective · Jun 2025

Apple and Google Just Turned Your Design Tokens Into Suggestions.

What platform-level theming means for the tokens you thought you controlled.

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Design Systems Collective · May 2025

I Gave My Agent CLAUDE.md and DESIGN.md. It Ignored My Entire Component Library.

What happens when an AI agent ignores your component library, and what to do about it.

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Design Systems Collective · 2026

The End of Static Mockups

Why static mockups are giving way to living, intelligent design artifacts.

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[ My podcast ]

Design by Suren

My podcast on design systems, accessibility, and designing for everyone. Streaming on Spotify.

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by Suren

Hosted by Surendar Selvaraj

Episode · 2025

Figma and Neurodiversity

How design systems can support neurodiverse users and improve accessibility, and why the tools we build should work with, not against, the way different minds think.

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