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There’s a new tool every week, and someone on LinkedIn declaring Figma dead again. It’s easy to end up guessing at what to update first, or whether your design system work still counts.

This workshop skips the guessing. You stop reading about it and do it, in one day, with a sample design system Christine gives you to keep.

What Will Attendees Learn?

Morning: Understand It and Get Your System Ready

• What’s actually going on, which tools fit which job, and what you can ignore
• How an AI agent reads a design system, and what it guesses when it can’t
• MCP in plain words, connected and used on your own machine
• What makes a design system AI-ready, and where your own Figma file falls down

Afternoon: Design and Prototype inside the System

• A Figma library generated from real code, and where Figma can’t follow
• A prototype made of real components, moved between code and the Figma canvas
• Keeping Figma and code aligned, with checks that catch drift
• Who does what between design and development now

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A design system playground to keep: a small codebase, Storybook and a matching Figma library
• Your own file checked, and a list of what to fix first
• A plan for Monday, and the three things to ask your developers for

Who Is This Workshop For?

UI, product, and design system designers who already work with Figma and design systems and want to add AI in a sensible way. No coding needed, but you’ll be closer to code by the end, and you’ll love it, Christine promises. Developers, design engineers and anyone curious are welcome too.

One warning: this field changes every three weeks. By the time you read this, at least one tool in here has been renamed, absorbed, or declared dead on LinkedIn. The workshop follows what’s relevant on the day, but most of the time goes into the structure underneath, which doesn’t change every three weeks. That’s what lets you make sensible decisions when the next tool shows up.

About Christine Vallaure

Christine Vallaure is a designer and educator with twenty years in product work. She is the founder of moonlearning.io, a learning platform that helps designers blur the line between design and code, and the author of theSolo. Christine spends most of her time in the developers’ weeds and brings back what designers actually need, then turns it into far too detailed articles, hands-on teaching and talks at conferences around the world.

Time & Location

This full-day workshop will take place the day before SmashingConf. The workshop will be running from 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday, September 6.

Schedule for Monday, September 6

9:00 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:30 AM – Morning session begins
1:00 PM – Lunch
2:00 PM – Afternoon session begins
3:30 PM – Coffee Break
5:00 PM – The End

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