<description>&lt;p&gt;From the comical wizard prompts of 2024 to the heavy-lifting reality of Figma MCP, Davy and PJ chart the compressed timeline of design system and canvas automation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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From the comical wizard prompts of 2024 to the heavy-lifting reality of Figma MCP, Davy and PJ chart the compressed timeline of design system and canvas automation.

Ep 102: Figma's History with AI

<description>&lt;p&gt;Why do we build in public when corporate nature tells us to hoard our work? Davy and PJ break down the unglamorous reality of sharing open-source tools, micro-contributions, and why 90s music is a hill worth dying on.&lt;/p&gt;
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Why do we build in public when corporate nature tells us to hoard our work? Davy and PJ break down the unglamorous reality of sharing open-source tools, micro-contributions, and why 90s music is a hill worth dying on.

Ep 101: Sharing Ideas and Open Source

<description>&lt;p&gt;We hit the Centennial! In our 100th episode, Davy and PJ look back on 4 years of our design systems chatter, before diving deep into the future of design systems: a community-driven, machine-readable schema that moves us past the &amp;quot;Figma-as-Source-of-Truth&amp;quot; era.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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We hit the Centennial! In our 100th episode, Davy and PJ look back on 4 years of our design systems chatter, before diving deep into the future of design systems: a community-driven, machine-readable schema that moves us past the &quot;Figma-as-Source-of-Truth&quot; era.

Ep 100: Happy Podcast Bday, and Schemas

<description>&lt;p&gt;Davy talks about trading a week of manual Figma updates for a &amp;quot;code-to-canvas&amp;quot; workflow that gets us &amp;quot;close enough&amp;quot; while PJ talks about running multiple worker-based agents to do production and qa work in tandem. Are these burner tasks?&lt;/p&gt;
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Davy talks about trading a week of manual Figma updates for a &quot;code-to-canvas&quot; workflow that gets us &quot;close enough&quot; while PJ talks about running multiple worker-based agents to do production and qa work in tandem. Are these burner tasks?

Ep 99: Durable vs Temporal Artifacts

<description>&lt;p&gt;Davy and PJ dive into the Zeroheight's 2026 Design Systems Survey to figure out why 61% of teams are drowning in work while a third of them still have "no plans" to automate—plus, Davy forces PJ to listen to some truly questionable AI-generated design jokes.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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Davy and PJ dive into the Zeroheight's 2026 Design Systems Survey to figure out why 61% of teams are drowning in work while a third of them still have "no plans" to automate—plus, Davy forces PJ to listen to some truly questionable AI-generated design jokes.

Ep 98: Zeroheight's 2026 DS Report Chatter

Davy and PJ, design system practitioners talk about design-led product ownership, scaling and adoption, community and engagement, design system team models, and much more. 

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