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)

Product Primitives: The New Material of Design System

For most of software history, UI has had a predictable form. You navigate to a page, fill out text fields, click buttons. No matter the user's context, the interface stays the same.

AI gives us the capability to adapt the shape of UI to match the user's intent. In this new world, the familiar foundation of design systems - buttons, inputs, dropdowns - will increasingly fade to the background. The new stars are the objects people actually create and manipulate.

But most design systems aren't ready for this shift. They document components, not the product objects those components serve.

In this session, I'll share a practical framework for defining product primitives: the objects users create, the surfaces those objects can appear in, and the intent signals that determine which surface to show. You'll see real examples, walk through specs you can adapt, and leave with a template to start defining your own.

Key Learnings

• How AI can shift interfaces from static forms to dynamic, context-aware surfaces
• How to define surfaces instead of rigid layouts to enable contextual adaptation
• How design system teams evolve into architects who define the grammar, while product teams define the vocabulary

Who is this for

Design system leads and architects thinking about where their systems need to go next. Designers working on complex tools where users create and manipulate domain-specific objects. Teams already thinking about how their systems need to evolve, not just how to use AI day-to-day. Teams curious about how AI can help you deliver more impactful experiences, not just increase velocity.

Speaker

Yesenia Perez-Cruz, Design systems consultant at Expressive Design Systems. Yesenia Perez-Cruz is the author of Expressive Design Systems and a design systems leader with 15 years of experience, most recently leading Shopify's Polaris design system. She now focuses on helping teams evolve their design foundations for AI-driven products.

Tags: Design Systems, AI, Product Design