Dive Club 🤿 Luis Ouriach - How are design systems changing?
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Mar 10, 2026 Luis Ouriach, a designer advocate at Figma who writes about agentic design systems. He explores how AI is reshaping design systems, when to automate and what to document, and how new integrations let designers push prototypes to the browser. Short takes on cross-functional rituals, starting anywhere as a maker, and the lowered cost to ship niche products.
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Design Systems Are The New Centerpiece
- Design systems have become central because LLM-driven code generation needs clear, machine-readable rules to produce consistent output.
- Luis says documentation and tokens now form the foundation for predictable generated code and faster engineering workflows.
Establish Team Rituals To Break Silos
- Hang out together and build rituals to collaborate synchronously and asynchronously across designers, engineers, and PMs.
- Luis recommends shared channels, documents, and access to code so people can flex into each other's phases without staying siloed.
Set Minimal Role Outputs And Write Documents
- Define the bare minimum responsibilities per role so people can expand skills without abandoning core outputs.
- Luis urges designers to write more documents as the clearest way to get cross-functional buy-in before committing to pixels.