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id: context-based-ds-2025
kind: work
title: "Context-Based Design Systems: A New Model for the AI-Driven Product Lifecycle"
work_kind: "essay"
date: "2025-07-03"
url: "https://southleft.com/insights/design-systems/context-based-design-systems-a-new-model-for-the-ai-driven-product-lifecycle/"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/context-based-ds-2025.md
---

# Context-Based Design Systems: A New Model for the AI-Driven Product Lifecycle

What's missing isn't data, it's context.

## Edges

- about -> Component contracts, Context engineering