Sep 18

Roundtable

AI and Design Systems

AI and Design Systems

Threat, Tool, or Transformation?

Threat, Tool, or Transformation?

Roundtable Room 1

Roundtable Room 1

13:40

13:40

60 Min

60 Min

This roundtable brings design system practitioners together to share experiences and challenge assumptions about AI's role in our work.

We'll explore: What's left for design systems when AI can generate components in minutes? How do we provide AI with the right context: tokens, documentation, MCPs to produce usable output rather than slop? Why do developers still want to manually edit AI-generated code, and how do we improve adoption?

Should documentation be generated from code, or does that strip out the institutional knowledge and decision rationale that makes it valuable? Participants will leave with practical approaches from peers, a clearer sense of where AI fits into design system workflows, and where human judgment remains irreplaceable.

Facilitated by

Kevin Coyle

Kevin Coyle

AI Systems Architect

AI Systems Architect

Drutek

Drutek

Kevin Coyle is the founder of Drutek, an Enterprise AI Operations consultancy helping Fortune 500 organizations operationalize AI in regulated industries. He currently serves as an AI Advisor at Pfizer, where he previously led the technical development of their global design system. Kevin spent four years as AI Lead at Big Medium, working alongside Brad Frost and some of the biggest names in design systems. He's spoken at conferences including Smashing Meet and Converge on the intersection of AI and design systems. He's delivered AI transformation solutions for clients including Nasdaq, Caterpillar, Cigna, Ulta and Pfizer.

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