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MCP

The path to an AI enabled design system: Our approach and lessons learned

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30 MIN + Q&A

About this Session

Design systems teams are under growing pressure to integrate AI, but knowing where to start is often the hardest part.

In this talk, we'll walk through a practical path towards an AI-enabled design system, based on real-world examples. We'll start with introducing an MCP integration as an entry point, including how to decide whether it is the right time to add something like this to your system at all. From there, we'll look at how teams can evolve beyond the first integration and gradually support more time-effective ways of working, without losing control of quality or consistency.

The talk covers both the technical side and the planning side. We'll share how to approach this work step by step, how to scope it sensibly, and how to fit it into an existing design system roadmap.

From our session, you will learn:

  • A practical way to assess whether your design system is ready for AI-enabled workflows
  • An approach to introducing AI incrementally without disrupting existing systems or teams
  • Lessons learned from planning and delivering this work, including common pitfalls to avoid

Who is this for?

This talk is for people working on design systems at different levels of maturity. Whether you're part of an enterprise design system with limited resources, a small team, or a team of one or two, the content is intended to be relevant. It applies both to long-standing design systems and to teams setting up a design system practice for a new product, including early-stage companies. You do not need to be an AI expert or highly technical to follow along.

Presented by:

Andressa Lombardo, Design Systems Lead at Miro, Design Systems expert and speaker presenting The path to an AI enabled design system: Our approach and lessons learned at Into Design Systems Conference 2026. Expert on AI-enabled design systems, MCP integration, and incremental AI adoption.

Andressa Lombardo

she/her

Design Systems Lead

Miro

I'm a design systems lead, educator and host of Into Design Systems. I'm interested in practical systems, community, and helping teams work better together.

Eddie Machado, Systems Designer at Miro, Design Systems expert and speaker presenting The path to an AI enabled design system: Our approach and lessons learned at Into Design Systems Conference 2026. Expert on AI-enabled design systems, MCP integration, and incremental AI adoption.

Eddie Machado

he/him

Systems Designer

Miro

Designer who loves building practical, scalable systems and really dislikes writing bios about himself.

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The path to an AI enabled design system: Our approach and lessons learned | Conference 2026