"A couple of years ago, design foundation like libraries and especially design systems meant long setup days: colour tokens, grids, spacing rules, and endless decisions before you even got to components. Process to Pixels is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. But lately, I've been wondering - what happens when AI starts doing the groundwork with us?"
"By all means, skipping design thinking feels like betraying an unwritten designer code. But to accelerate it? To turn "hours of setup" into "minutes of exploration"? Who would say "No"? So when MagicPathAI announced their design challenge, I decided to test it. I decided to build a UI Kit for SaaS (not very imaginative, I know, but decided to start with something less ambitions than a design system). As it turned out - it was more structured and thoughtful than I expected."
Design foundations traditionally required lengthy setup including colour tokens, grids, spacing rules, and many decisions before components. Emerging AI tools can perform groundwork, dramatically reducing initial setup time and enabling rapid exploration. An experiment using MagicPathAI produced a SaaS UI kit with emphasis on structure over style and yielded surprisingly structured, thoughtful results. Rapidly establishing foundations allows designers to iterate faster while maintaining thoughtful constraints. Starting with structure rather than immediate visual style enables faster, more focused component work and exploration of design directions.
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