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Intent-Driven Context for AI Design Systems | by Diana Wolosin | Design Systems | Jan, 2026 | Design Systems Collective

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A welcoming community for designers and developers passionate about scalable, consistent design. Explore articles, insights, and resources to build and refine your design systems. Join us to connect, learn, and shape the future of systematic design together. Follow publication 145 2 Listen Share More Throughout my design systems + AI expedition, my focus has been on the metadata format. I have been working to determine the optimal structure for our design system documentation to ensure it is easily understood by LLMs. This involved decisions on the metadata structure, schema, formatting, and MCPs. That framing was a great way to gain immersion in the AI infrastructure world, until I attempted to align this work with the broader AI strategy across Indeed. In a conversation with Adam Ullrich, one of our AI directors, I started walking through the structure we were defining for the design system context and metadata. He paused me and asked different questions: “What is the right context t

Intent-Driven Context for AI Design Systems Context is not defined by format. It is defined by intent. Diana Wolosin | Design Systems 8 min read · Jan 2, 2026 -- 2 Listen Share Throughout my design systems + AI expedition, my focus has been on the metadata format. I have been working to determine the optimal structure for our design system documentation to ensure it is easily understood by LLMs. This involved decisions on the metadata structure, schema, formatting, and MCPs. That framing was a great way to gain immersion in the AI infrastructure world, until I attempted to align this work with

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