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id: elyse-holladay
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title: "Elyse Holladay"
role: "Design systems lead"
org_label: "zeroheight"
confidence: "sourced"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/elyse-holladay.md
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# Elyse Holladay

Argues a system has to document when and why, not only how, because the why is what a model otherwise guesses at. Names three 2026 moves: MCP servers and skills, designing in code, and shipping patterns as structured relationships.

## Links

- post: https://zeroheight.com/blog/ai-in-design-systems-whats-changing-in-2026/

## Edges

- authored -> AI in design systems: What's changing in 2026
- focus -> Agent skills, Context engineering, MCP servers, Maturity and readiness models
- works_at -> zeroheight

## Sources

- https://zeroheight.com/blog/ai-in-design-systems-whats-changing-in-2026/