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Master the intersection of AI and Design Systems to bridge the gap between design and code, accelerating your product workflow while maintaining peak digital quality.
TJ Pitre – AI & Design Systems
AI is here
whether we’re ready or not.
It’s powerful
which is why everyone is trying to figure it out.
…and it can make a huge mess.
AI produces unpredictable results and lacks awareness of your organization’s realities, standards, and practices.
Design systems are here to help.
They provide UI consistency, organizational standards, and design & code best practices
Design systems provide guardrails
Well-considered design decisions serve as thoughtful constraints to help teams deliver at scale.
They provide a shared language
Design systems connect disciplines, teams, people, tools, and now machines.
AI
Design Systems
AI & Design Systems
is a powerful combination.
This course will teach you how to use AI & design systems together to create great digital products.
This course is for anyone invested in the success of digital products at your organization. Whether you’re a designer, developer, product owner, manager, or leader, you’ll learn how AI & design systems work together to help you create better digital products. The course blends foundational concepts with practical, in-the-weeds instruction to help you level up your skills and understanding. By taking this course, you’ll:
- Cut through the AI hype and confidently understand and navigate this fast-moving, noisy AI landscape.
- Understand design systems’ evolving role as critical infrastructure for this new AI-driven era.
- Become an expert in how AI and design systems work together to help your organization build great digital products.
- Accelerate your AI & design systems journey by receiving sample architecture, demonstrations, and real-world applications.
- Transform your team’s workflow to gain efficiency and effectiveness without sacrificing product quality.
- Unlock designer/developer collaboration, closing the gap between design and development by using shared context, language, and infrastructure
- Save time, money, and agony by learning how to synchonize environments, disciplines, tools, and assets.
Course Structure
This self-paced course will feature in-depth videos that cover both high-level concepts and practical instruction to help your team wield AI & design systems together.
ai + design systems
Learn core concepts around the many ways AI and design systems interact to create better, more efficient, and more consistent digital products.
technologies & tools
Find your footing amidst the ever-growing and always-changing landscape of AI and design systems tooling and technologies.
environments and setup
Learn how to integrate AI into your design tools, code environments, documentation, and more.
context-based design systems workflow
Learn how AI can be used to help create components, QA design artifacts, translate from design to code, validate code, and launch quality work faster.
maintaining systems & anticipating change
No one can predict the future, and this landscape certainly doesn’t sit still. Learn how to build a culture of resilience and adaptability in your organization.
community & resources
In addition to the course video content, you’ll receive access to a Slack community filled with like-minded enthusiasts, a slew of links, and other resources to help you on your journey.
Your Teachers
Learn from industry veterans who have helped countless digital organizations create design systems, adopt new technologies, and work better together.
TJ Pitre
Founder and CEO of Southleft
I’m a front-end engineer, design-systems architect, and the founder and CEO of Southleft. I’ve spent the last twenty years helping product teams turn complex UI into reliable systems that scale across brands, platforms, and teams. I love the craft of building interfaces that are both flexible and durable.
My recent work focuses on how AI can accelerate design-to-development workflows. I’ve created generative UI prototypes and tooling that help teams assemble real interfaces from design systems, validate tokens and component structure, and sustain high-quality standards with less friction. I share this work often through demos, talks, and collaborations that explore how AI can support the way we already build digital products.
I’m based in New Orleans with my wife and three kids. When I’m not building something new, I’m usually cooking, tinkering, or chasing the next fun idea.
Brad Frost & Ian Frost
Creators of Atomic Design, Design systems consultants
Brad Frost Web is Brad and Ian Frost, two brothers passionate about making things and helping people. With over 30 years of combined industry experience, we’ve helped countless organizations—including many Fortune 500 companies—evolve design systems, establish better processes, and create better digital products. We help digital teams level up through training and online courses about design systems, design tokens, frontend development, collaboration, and more.
We live five minutes away from each other in beautiful Pittsburgh. When we’re not neck-deep in design systems, we’re playing music, making things, and spending time with our families.
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 56
- Assessments Yes