What Would You Want From AI That’s Forced to Use Your Component Library?
Most AI UI tools are fun until they hit reality:
Your design system.
They generate layouts that are:
off-brand
off-component
off-token
and definitely off-roadmap
So I keep coming back to this alternative:
AI that can only design with components from your library.
Imagine connecting AI to your real system and it learns:
your tokens
your components and props
your patterns
your rules
No inventing new buttons.
No “creative” typography.
No random spacing logic.
What should this kind of AI actually do?
If AI truly understood your library, what should be the first job you give it?
Generate on-system first drafts?
Refine existing screens to improve hierarchy?
Create states (empty/loading/error) using approved patterns?
Help migrate old UI to modern components?
Flag off-system usage and suggest fixes?
I’m seeing early signals that this could be a massive unlock for large teams - but I want to know what would make it genuinely valuable for you.
Questions for you 👇
What is the #1 task you’d trust a system-first AI with?
Where would you still require human review every time?
Would you use this more for creation, refinement, or governance?
PS: We've been a little quiet on here, but we will be launching very soon! Be sure to follow so you don't miss out!
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I think i'd use it to focus on two tasks.. the first being quick drafts that are on-brand and the second would be modernising old UI.
Looking forward to the launch!
@julia_prus1 on-brand is key and a big issue most AI tools are missing at the moment!
Launch is ~9 hours away! 😉
Generative AI coding tools are by themselves getting pretty good at thematic consistency however in my experience even with preliminary project prompt seeding (Claude.md file, etc) they can veer off course. That said, you mentioned a few "jobs" to potentially give AI and I love the idea of using it to carry out tasks such as enforcing design requirements and migrating old UI to modern components. These sorts of things aren't such a big deal when maybe vibe coding an MVP but as a company matures the necessary overhead and bureaucracy tends to grow with it and so it would be pretty exciting if AI could assist with these sorts of tedious but important tasks.