TJ
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Makin' my way in the world today takes everything I got. Takin' a break from all your worries sure would help a lot. Wouldn't you like to get away?
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TJ
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· 2d
There's a lot of excitement around Figma Dev Mode MCP, and rightfully so. It's a big leap forward for connecting designs to code, and we've been loving it!
But here's where some misco...
There's a lot of excitement around Figma Dev Mode MCP, and rightfully so. It's a big leap forward for connecting designs to code, and we've been loving it!
But here's where some misconceptions creep ...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Sep 8
#documentation #ai #designsystems #mcp | TJ Pitre
Most teams don't have a documentation problem.
They have a documentation access problem.
Docs are written, but they're scattered.
They're updated, but no one can find them.
They exist, but they don’t...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Aug 19
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· Aug 18
DS Live: TJ Pitre - Context-Based Design Systems: Preparing for an AI-Driven Future
DS Live is a new webinar series from zeroheight where we invite the best speakers from around the world to deliver talks on design systems, and everything ...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jul 24
Good answers come from good questions. | TJ Pitre
Good answers come from good questions. Great answers come from great context.
A few weeks ago, I shared the Design Systems Assistant MCP (https://lnkd.in/g2Ugkqp8). The response was overwhelming, in ...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jul 16
Design systems codebases need audits, too. | TJ Pitre
Design systems codebases need audits, too.
Here's a sneak peek at a new tool I've been working on.
It's called DSAudit, and it's like Lighthouse, but for your design system's cod...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jul 10
For a while, it felt like design systems had settled. | TJ Pitre
For a while, it felt like design systems had settled.
We basically defined the global component set for all design systems, we've all settled on semantic token naming structures, we've pipel...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jul 4
Context-Based Design Systems: A New Model for the AI-Driven Product Lifecycle
What happens when every step in the product lifecycle inherits context from the one before it? You get a smarter, faster, more accurate way to build and the start of a new design systems era.
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jul 2
Designers and developers want the same thing: clean, scalable, production-ready UI. | TJ Pitre
Designers and developers want the same thing: clean, scalable, production-ready UI.
But we don’t always speak the same language.
Introducing FigmaLint.
We’ve come a long way.
Design systems create...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jun 30
Designers don't always know what developers need. | TJ Pitre
Designers don't always know what developers need. This was my attempt at fixing that.
I just submitted FigmaLint for review in the Figma plugin directory. While I wait on approval, I wanted to sh...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jun 27
There wasn't a trusted MCP server for design systems. | TJ Pitre
There wasn't a trusted MCP server for design systems. So I built one.
When I announced FigmaLint (https://lnkd.in/gXuE27A6), I ran into a frustrating problem: I couldn't get consistent scores...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jun 24
Most designers aren't trained to think like developers, and they shouldn't have to be. | TJ Pitre
Most designers aren't trained to think like developers, and they shouldn't have to be.
But if your team is using tools like the official Figma MCP, then developer intent does need to be repre...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jun 19
Layout requests shouldn't always have to wait for a developer. | TJ Pitre
Layout requests shouldn't always have to wait for a developer.
For years, I've seen PMs, designers, and non-dev contributors hit walls trying to test new page ideas, experiment with flows, or...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jun 13
Rethinking Design-to-Product Workflows with MCP, Design Systems, and Generative UI | Southleft, LLC
By combining Figma’s MCP server, a structured design system, and natural language UI generation, we’re not just speeding up design-to-dev, we’re rethinking the entire path from idea to product.
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jun 11
Part 2: More from “TJ Plays with AI + Design Systems.”
This time: Figma… | TJ Pitre
Part 2: More from “TJ Plays with AI + Design Systems.”
This time: Figma MCP → Web Components → React Storybook → Custom UI Generator.
I took the same banner component from yesterday’s demo (https://...
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TJ
@tpitre.bsky.social
· Jun 9
More from “TJ Plays with AI + Design Systems.” - Official Figma MCP… | TJ Pitre
More from “TJ Plays with AI + Design Systems.” - Official Figma MCP Edition
Two months ago, I shared a post about playing with a community-contributed Figma MCP server and how blown away I was by the...
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