AI at Work: Design Systems
Design systems have always been about finding the right balance between rules and freedom, structure and speed.
Design systems have always been about finding the right balance between rules and freedom, structure and speed.
When people think about accessible images, they often think about alternative text, or alt text. While alt text is an important part of image accessibility, creating accessible images involves more than writing a description and adding it to an image.
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, staying ahead of emerging technologies and industry shifts isn’t just beneficial, it’s essential. At Sparkbox, we’ve discovered a powerful approach to continuous learning that keeps our team sharp and delivers tangible value to our clients: expedition teams.
Building AI skills taught me that the most valuable part is not the prompt itself, but the thinking, structure, and refinement behind it.
Clients rarely come to Sparkbox with a blank slate. We meet clients exactly where they are and help them move forward from there.
Lit and React both have a place in the web toolbelt, but each solves different problems for different teams.
AI coding tools are making it possible to build software faster than ever before. But speed alone is not enough. Leveraging AI alongside good development practices helps us move faster without sacrificing quality.
AI agents are only as good as the context you give them. To shape how your agent behaves and what it knows how to do, there are two concepts at your disposal. Rules and skills allow you to spend less time repeating yourself and more time getting better results.
By framing the current landscape as a “New Polyglot Wave,” I’ve moved past the anxiety of finding the “perfect” tool. Instead, I focus on building an intentional workflow where the best AI tool is sometimes three (or none).
Maintaining a design system is a significant task, and how you structure the team that does that work may be helping or hurting your cause.

Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development