Conference Agenda March 2026

Complete schedule for Into Design Systems Conference 2026. March 19-20 online. 14+ sessions on AI Design Systems, Vibe Coding, MCP integrations. Speakers from WhatsApp, Miro, Indeed, Adobe, GitHub, Figma.

Day 1 - March 19, 2026

• Prototyping for the unknown by Nate Baldwin (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
• WhatsApp Web: Reclaiming UI Excellence through Vibe Coding by Sebastian Rousseau (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
• Product Primitives: The New Material of Design System by Yesenia Perez-Cruz (7:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
• The path to an AI enabled design system: Our approach and lessons learned by Andressa Lombardo & Eddie Machado (8:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
• Agentic Design Systems by Romina Kavcic (9:30 PM - 10:30 PM)
• I'm not an engineer but I ship code: How designers can ship production code and work like an engineer by Freya Stockman (10:30 PM - 11:30 PM)
• Context > Probability: Design systems as AI infrastructure by Jesse Gardner (11:30 PM - 12:30 AM)
• Encoding governance on agentic design systems by Cristian Morales Achiardi (12:30 AM - 1:30 AM)

Day 2 - March 20, 2026

• Building real design systems with agents by Jan Six (5:00 PM - 6:00 PM)
• Vibe coding with zero drift: from Figma to Storybook to Production by Shuaiqi (Mr.Biscuit) Sun (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)
• Machine-Readable Design Systems for MCP and LLMs by Diana Wolosin (7:00 PM - 8:00 PM)
• From falling for markdown to solving real problems with scripts by Laura Fehre (8:00 PM - 9:00 PM)
• Ship It! Vibe Coding Your First Figma Plugin by Davy Fung (9:30 PM - 10:30 PM)
• Designers Who Ship: Building a Real Plugin in 48 Hours with AI by Casandra Sandu, Christoph Hellmuth & Raquel Pereira (10:30 PM - 11:30 PM)
• AI Without the Chaos: Context-Based Design Systems to the Rescue by Brad Frost, Ian Frost & TJ Pitre (11:30 PM - 12:30 AM)

Designers Who Ship: Building a Real Plugin in 48 Hours with AI

Can designers really build a working Figma plugin in 48 hours? Christoph, Raquel and Casandra did it, and in this session they'll show you how. Using AI-assisted coding tools, they went from idea to shippable plugin in two days.

You'll learn their process: scoping the right problem, iterating with AI pair programming, and shipping something real. No prior plugin experience required.

Key Learnings

• How to scope a plugin project for a 48-hour timeframe
• AI-assisted workflow for plugin development
• From Figma plugin idea to working prototype

Who is this for

Designers who want to ship code, especially those curious about building Figma plugins with AI assistance.

Speakers

Christoph Hellmuth, Lead Product Designer - Design Systems at NordVPN. Lead Product Designer for Design Systems at NordVPN, passionate about design systems and designer-led development.

Raquel Pereira, Lead UX Designer - Design System at Nokia. Lead UX Designer for Design System at Nokia, focused on creating cohesive design experiences at scale.

Casandra Sandu, Design System Specialist at Trackunit. Casandra Sandu leads the Design System at Trackunit and focuses on building systems that scale across teams and products. She cares deeply about clarity, consistency, and the human side of systems. Through AI-assisted workflows, she connects design and engineering, turning systems into collaborative, living tools instead of static libraries.

Tags: Figma, Vibe Coding, Plugins, AI