Justine Montgomery

How Design Systems Teams Are Actually Using AI

Samantha Gordashko (Sam I Am Designs)

Design Systems Lead

Lea Phillips

Principal Design Systems Lead @ Wood Mackenzie

Caleb Smith

Design Systems Lead @ One North

Snr. Design Systems Prev. @ Stripe

Designers share how AI fits into their everyday design systems workflows

Hear how design systems practitioners are using AI

Compare how different teams are experimenting with tools like Figma Make, Figma Agents, MCPs, and Claude

Explore different approaches to AI workflows

Walk away with practical ideas, workflows, and use cases that you can adapt and explore in your own design systems

Leave with new ideas to experiment with

Go from trial-and-error prompting to systematic AI-assisted building. Ship functional projects with a workflow you can use on every project

AI Design Leader |  x-Uber/Google/Amazon

Stanford University

Amazon

Google

Uber

Rupa Chaturvedi

AI Design Leader | AI enablement for UX orgs | ex-Uber, Google, Amazon, Stanford

Cohort 2

Cohort 3

The job posting asks for a designer who can research, prototype, code, and ship. One role, three people's worth of expectations. Design teams got smaller. The work did not. And now every product roadmap includes AI features that need to be designed by people who were never trained to design for probabilistic systems.The pressure is coming from two directions. Inside your organization, you are expected to move faster with fewer resources while somehow incorporating AI tools into workflows no one has figured out yet. Outside, the profession itself is shifting. AI generates interfaces, writes copy, produces prototypes in minutes. The execution work that built your career is compressing. The question is no longer whether designers need to adapt—it is whether you are building the skills that will matter in two years.Claude Code for Designers answers both pressures at once. You move faster because you can build functional prototypes yourself. You stay relevant because directing AI to build is the new execution skill. You leave with a deployed project and a workflow system you can use on anything that comes next.

Master Claude Code. Build functional projects. Develop a reusable workflow.

An AI-First Build Workflow: From project scoping through deployment

A Reusable Workflow System: Templates, skills, prompt libraries, MCP configs

A Deployed Application: Ship a functional project from your own idea

Portfolio artifacts and fluency to discuss AI-assisted design in interviews

Design-to-Code Translation: Turn your design system into functional components

This course assumes working knowledge of design systems, user research, and product workflows.

5+ years of professional design experience

Experience using AI assistants in your workflow. The course moves quickly and assumes baseline comfort.

Familiarity with AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot)

Product Designers. You design in Figma and wait on engineering. You want to build and ship functional prototypes yourself.

Design Leaders. Your team needs to move faster and integrate AI workflows. You want firsthand fluency before rolling this out.

MXDAI Alumni. You have the strategic frameworks for AI design. Now you want the execution skill to match.

From Figma foundations to shipped product — in 5 weeks.

Founder moonlearning · 2× Config Speaker

Christine Vallaure

Founder, moonlearning.io · 2× Figma Config speaker · Awwwards Jury

Cohort 1 (May 2026)

Cohort 2 - October 26

4-week hybrid course Agentic AI is reshaping how products get built. Designers who get this will have more creative control than ever.Most courses on this are built for developers. This one is built especially for designers working in Figma and beyond, no engineering background needed.Weeks 1 to 3: Core Figma properly (+ new features 2026). Components, variables, auto layout, and naming. Understanding the foundation from the basics to the pro setup. Skip this, and all AI you add is built on sand and useless.Week 4: Get AI Agent ready: MCP, Design.md files, Skills, Claude and agent-readable files demystified for designers, and a live exercise building your own lightweight agent with Claude. <hr> Includes:🧭 How it works, why it matters, design and code reality✍️ Hands-on exercises every week📌 Essentials first, extra mile optional🧩 One real project connecting everything🔀 Self-paced videos plus live sessions with Christine🚀 Week 4: Agentic AI for Designers, from understanding MCP to making your own agent Note: You'll get a free Figma Edu invite. Week 4 covers building agents with Claude — a Pro account lets you follow along hands-on, otherwise you can watch.

The design skills that make you agent-ready 

From pretty screens → a scalable UI foundation

From feature overwhelm → using Figma features with purpose

From handoff friction → dev & agent understanding

From Figma file →  Agent-ready AI design system

This course builds on basic Figma knowledge. You should know your way around the interface and core tools.

You should already be comfortable with:

Designers levelling up in FigmaYou know the basics but want real confidence in how your files are set up and why.

Designers who feel the AI shift comingUnderstand what agentic AI means for your work without wading through developer-focused content.

Designers working in teamsYou want a cleaner structure, better handoff, and a file that communicates intent clearly to humans and agents.

You will evolve from traditional workflows to confidently using AI as a design partner to accelerate ideas and improve outcomes.

Sr Interaction Designer Google | Youtube

YouTube

MongoDB

Shutterstock

Erin Essex

Sr. Interaction Designer @Google | International Speaker | Design Director

June 2026

August 2026

Stop wasting time on tedious, time consuming tasks. Automate your design process and dedicate your time to the high-impact work you enjoy most: designing, understanding your users, and shaping better experiences.Why it's Important:Tech companies have shifted to a flexible, condensed 4-day format with half-day sessions. Time is scarce and design standards are constantly increasing, leaving designers in place where we either adapt or become obsolete.Automating your design process with AI is essential to freeing up time for decision-making, understanding users, and delivering high impact design.Key Student Outcomes:📗Learn how to create with Claude Design, Loveable, AI Studio, Notebook LM, Figma Make, &amp; Antigravity📘Master the real-world capabilities of AI in design today📕Leverage AI to save time and focus on creative problem-solvingWhat to Expect📆This is a completely live 6 day course with office hours✏️You'll engage in a series of workshops and applied projects👋This is a hands on course - get ready to learn multiple programs over the next 2 weeksNeed support?Scholarships are available for students who require financial assistance: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://forms.gle/gXKo7UDjQeu5m5EKA">Scholarship Application</a>

Automate Tasks and Spend More Time on Design That Matters

How AI is used in UX today

AI tools for designers

How to incorporate AI into your UX workflow

The future of AI in UX

Creating AI Systems and Processes

How to effectively work with AI design tools

Figma

Designers looking to maximize their time

Creatives who want to learn how to integrate and use AI in their design process

Design leaders and managers who want to improve team output

Build the workflow that will define how designers work in the next era

Visual Designer,  Educator & AI expert

Maxime Rabot

Visual Designer, Design System Expert, Educator & AI passionate

Cohort

Walk in using AI occasionally, unsure what's hype and what's useful. Walk out with a working AI-augmented design process — yours to keep, refine, and use Monday morning.In one day.200+ designers across cohorts of the Design in the Age of AI program have built their own AI-augmented workflows with us.We took the highest-impact sessions from the program and built a standalone, hands-on workshop around them.We guide you step by step through the design process — from prompting and tool selection to research, exploration, systems work, and handoff — with AI folded in where it actually helps and left out where it doesn't.<h3>What you need</h3>You don't need to be an AI expert or a power user. You need:<ul><li>A laptop</li><li>A current or recent design project you can rebuild a piece of</li><li>A Claude account (free tier works; Pro recommended)</li><li>Figma</li><li>A willingness to question how you've been working</li></ul>

You don't need to be an AI expert or a power user. 

What you need

You keep meaning to "get into AI" and never do. One focused day, a real workflow, and a setup you'll actually use Monday.

You've tried AI for design and been underwhelmed. The problem isn't the tool — it's how you're using it. We'll fix that.

You don't want to lose your edge. Learn to use AI as an amplifier for your craft instead of a shortcut that erodes it.

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Designers who craft user experiences, interfaces, and visual design.

Applying AI tools and techniques to professional workflows — assign alongside more specific AI topics.

Building and maintaining scalable design systems — tokens, components, patterns, and documentation.

Mastering Figma for design workflows — components, auto-layout, prototyping, and collaboration features.

Automating professional workflows with AI tools — productivity, operations, and task automation.