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id: jesse-gardner
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title: "Jesse Gardner"
role: "Director of user research"
org_label: "New York State"
confidence: "sourced"
atlas_url: https://designsystems.fly.dev/nodes/jesse-gardner.md
---

# Jesse Gardner

Spoke at Into Design Systems 2026 on design systems as AI infrastructure, arguing context over probability. One of the few public-sector voices in this cluster.

## Edges

- authored -> Context > Probability: Design systems as AI infrastructure
- focus -> Adoption and mandate, Context engineering
- works_at -> New York State

## Sources

- https://www.intodesignsystems.com/speakers