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title: "Designers shipping code"
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# Designers shipping code

The operating-model change most visible on conference stages this year: designers opening the pull request.

## Edges

- <- about <- AI & Design Systems (course), AI Design Systems Conference 2026, Beyond Design Tokens: Building an AI-Ready Figma Handoff, Context-Based Design Systems, Revisited, Design Systems Course, Design Systems Without Figma: Our AI-Powered Code-First Approach, Designers Who Ship: Building a Real Plugin in 48 Hours with AI, From falling for markdown to solving real problems with scripts, I'm not an engineer but I ship code, Life After the Prototype, Prototyping for the unknown, Ship It! Vibe Coding Your First Figma Plugin, The Informal Contract Is Over., WhatsApp Web: Reclaiming UI Excellence through Vibe Coding, Why Design System Governance Belongs in Code
- <- focus <- Brad Frost, Casandra Sandu, Christine Vallaure, Christoph Hellmuth, Davy Fung, Dei, Freya Stockman, Ian Frost, Jan Six, Laura Fehre, Michael Schultz, Nate Baldwin, Raquel Pereira, Sebastian Rousseau, Shane P Williams, Shuaiqi Sun, Sil Bormüller, TJ Pitre
- <- ships <- AI & Design Systems, Into Design Systems

## Sources

- https://www.intodesignsystems.com/speakers
- https://southleft.com/insights/design-systems/context-based-design-systems-revisited/