Kari Brooks

Kari Brooks

Hi, I'm Kari — CEO at Team Treehouse

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Would You Trust AI to Be a “Junior Designer” Inside Your Design System?

Most design AI tools today act like a junior designer who s never met your brand.

They re great at generating something that looks like UI.
But inside a real product team, that s usually not enough.

If you own a design system (or work with one), you ve probably seen AI:

  • Use the wrong components

  • Ignore spacing & grid rules

  • Invent new colours and type scales

  • Create patterns that don t exist in your product

We’ve Been a Little Quiet on Product Hunt… but that's about to change.

It s been a while since our last Product Hunt launch.

In that time, we ve been heads down working on UXPin Merge - bringing real, coded components into the design tool so designers and devs finally share the same source of truth.

Now we re getting ready for what feels like the next big step for Merge.

Instead of doing the usual big reveal first, I d rather ask the people actually living these problems every day: