A morning paper for product designers
Today's thread

Design systems now double as the documentation agents read

Figma's Code Layers and Specs releases push design-context ownership into the system itself, while Callstack's React Native agent-skills push and Una Kravets' mesh gradient note show the same shift happening at the CSS and native-build layer. If design context becomes something agents read directly, the job shifts from making the artifact to writing the rationale that outlives it.

Reads8 picks · 7 min
01Figma (video)16 d

Code Layers Figma canvas now shows code and its building process

It removes the handoff gap between design and code, so prototypes you build with engineers stay legible as decisions rather than just final pixels.

Read on youtube.com
Try today

Open a current Figma file and write one line of guidance for a component's "why," then check whether Code Layers or Specs would actually surface it to a collaborator or agent.

← All threads