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

The technical vocabulary and depth designers need to build functional prototypes with agentic coding tools. No coding experience required.

Product design leader turned AI educator

Payoneer

Anna Arteeva

Anna Arteeva is a product design leader and a product builder

July

August

Coding designers used to be called unicorns. Now, working in code is becoming a baseline expectation, and AI is making it accessible.Code is more than a path into frontend territory. It helps you test ideas with greater fidelity, gather sharper feedback, and move beyond static screens into functional, interactive experiences. It also lets you prototype with real data, APIs, voice, vision, and user context, opening up possibilities that Figma alone cannot support.This intensive, hands-on course is designed for product designers. You’ll learn technical concepts through a designer’s lens, build practical projects, and receive personal feedback on your work.You’ll cover:• AI coding tools and when to use them • Frontend foundations • Design systems and portable design instructions, including DESIGN.md • Motion, interaction, and third-party libraries • Figma-to-code and code-to-Figma workflows • AI-powered product featuresThe course is tool-agnostic and applies to Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Copilot, and other coding agents. Claude Code is used most often in demonstrations.

From designer to AI-powered builder.

The mindset and the tools

Visual exploration before code

Frontend foundations for designers

Prototype with your brand and design system

Teach your agent: customise, automate, debug

Beyond the prototype

Coding Agent Subscription

User flows, design systems, variables and design tokens

Understanding of product design fundamentals

No previous coding experience required

Senior+ Product, UX, and Interaction Designers, looking to future-proof their workflow and increase scope, deliverables, and impact

Design leaders, looking to make their teams more effective and impactful

Product managers, who want to become product builders, ideate, validate, and ship faster

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 You hand your work to an AI tool and it comes back generic, off-brand, and falling apart the moment you touch it. The fix is not a better prompt. It is a Figma file an agent can actually read, plus the judgment to know what works, what doesn't, and why.Most courses on this are built for developers. This course is for designers. No engineering background needed.Weeks 1 to 3: Core Figma, the part agents read. Figma basics to pro and why they matter: Component setup, variables with token alignment, auto layout, naming conventions, from basics to pro. Skip this, and every bit of AI you add is built on sand.Week 4: Get AI Agent ready: MCP, Design.md, skills, and why AI drifts and how to stop it. All demystified for designers, and you build your own lightweight agent live. <hr> Includes:🚀 Week 4, agentic AI, MCP to your own agent✍️ Hands-on exercises every week📌 Essentials first, extra mile optional🧩 One real project connecting everything🔀 Self-paced videos plus live sessions with Christine Note: Note: You'll get a free Figma Edu invite. Week 4 builds agents with Claude, so a Pro account lets you follow along hands-on. No Pro, no problem; you can just watch.

The design skills that make you AI agent-ready 

From pretty screens → a UI foundation that scales

From feature overwhelm → Figma used with purpose

From handoff friction → files devs and agents both read

From generic AI output → an on-brand, agent-ready 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

Google

YouTube

MongoDB

Shutterstock

Erin Essex

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

June 2026

Sept 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

Find a more thoughtful way to work with AI

Visual Designer,  Educator & AI expert

Maxime Rabot

Visual Designer, Design System Expert, Educator & AI passionate

Cohort

AI is changing the way we design, but it does not have to make the work feel rushed, generic, or less human.In this live, hands-on workshop, you will explore how AI can support your process from the first brief to developer handoff - while keeping your taste, judgment, and creative point of view at the centre.Bring a real project, try the process alongside other designers, and leave with a workflow you can make your own.

Turn AI from a noisy set of tools into a thoughtful extension of your practice - faster where it helps, human where it matters.

A clear, practical way to bring AI into your design process

A working setup of tools, prompts, and reusable starting points

More confidence about where AI helps - and where your own judgment matters most

A reworked piece of a real project you are already working on

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

What you need

You keep meaning to get into AI Build a useful workflow in one focused day, then use it on your next project.

You have tried AI for design and felt underwhelmed Learn where AI genuinely helps and why better results need more than the right tool.

You want a clearer path from brief to handoff Use AI to explore, organise, and communicate your work more clearly from brief to handoff.

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

Welcome and FigJam Board Setup

Host Introductions

Agenda Overview and Topic Voting

Showcasing AI in Design Portfolios

Figma MCP Server and Agentic Design Systems

Claude to Canvas and Practical AI Workflows

Exploring Figma Agents and Generative Plugins

Managing AI Tool Overwhelm and Wrap-up

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.

How Design Systems Teams Are Actually Using AI

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

You'll learn from

Samantha Gordashko (Sam I Am Designs)

Lea Phillips

Caleb Smith

Justine Montgomery