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)

Encoding governance on agentic design systems

Design systems codify decisions and contracts, but they've always depended on human governance to stay honest. Documentation drifts from implementation. Tokens diverge from code. The "source of truth" depends on who you ask.

The fix isn't more process. It's choosing the source of truth that can't lie: code.

This session introduces a layered architecture for agentic design systems, where AI agents don't just consume components the way developers do, but actively enforce the contracts your system already defines. The architecture separates concerns across three primitives: skills (reusable executable capabilities), rules (project-specific constraints and decisions), and instructions (the methodology that orchestrates both).

The result: governance becomes an automated output, not an expensive special project. Weekly audits at cents per report. Drift detection without dedicated headcount. Design decisions that are explicit in the system rules and enforced by the agents that read them.

This isn't a better-indexed component library. It's a design system that governs itself.

Key Learnings

• The three structural layers of an agentic design system: tokenization, indexing, and strategies, with live code examples of the skills and artifacts each layer produces
• How structured component metadata enables agents to select, compose, and enforce design decisions without human interpretation
• Why indexing and relationship mapping are the missing infrastructure that turns a component library into an agent-ready system
• What governance looks like as an automated output: on-demand audit reports, generated dashboards, and documentation sites built from the system itself

Who is this for

This session is for design system maintainers, design engineers, and front-end developers who care about component architecture and are frustrated with governance being a manual, expensive process. If you've felt the pain of documentation drifting from implementation, tokens diverging from code, and "source of truth" meaning something different to every team member, this talk offers a structural answer. You don't need AI experience, but you should care about systems, contracts, and how design decisions survive contact with a real codebase.

Speaker

Cristian Morales Achiardi, Design Engineer at Enara Health. Exploring how AI reshapes design systems, design to code workflows, and trust between humans and machines. Currently creating pipelines that make design data machine-readable and ready for AI agents.

Tags: AI, Design Systems