Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience. Time for the hot takes - do design systems need product management? Or is it something that just gets in the way and stops work happening?

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• Design System Report 2026
• Amy Hupe

Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience.

Once you've done a first pass on anything in your design system, how do you validate it? Do you create complicated automated tests to ensure absolute consistency? Or do you even put it in front of real people to make sure it works?

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• Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
• AXE MCP server
• Tetralogical - a great accessibility agency

Live recording of the fortnightly podcast Design Systems WTF (back for season two!), where Luke Murphy and Michelle Chin attempt to combat all the amazing wtf in design systems. In each episode, they answer a single question around design system troubles with a Q&A from the live audience.

Now we're in the business of creating context for AI (ew), what is actually important when we're creating documentation that will be used by machines AND humans? Are detailed component guidelines important? Are the foundations essential to get right? Or can we rely on top-level patterns and vague guidance?

Show notes

• How LLMs use MCPs to read your design system and how to write prompts that work with that
• Product Deep Dive Webinar: MCP, vibe coding, and your design system
• PDF of A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander et al.
• Google Prompting Essentials course on Coursera
• Marketing Against the Grain podcast
• AI and Design Systems course with Brad Frost, Ian Frost and TJ Pitre
• TJ Pitre on LinkedIn
• Dom Nguyen on LinkedIn
• Sil Bormüller on LinkedIn