Building a Pattern Library for Generative UX
Leading the design system for a multi-product SaaS platform serving government organizations. The challenge: create a unified design language that scales across diverse products while enabling rapid development and maintaining consistency.
The solution: a comprehensive design system with 100% pattern coverage, AI-powered workflows, and production-ready components that work seamlessly across the entire product suite.
Every screen in Agent Studio is built on a single, consistent layout pattern. This foundational pattern establishes the navigation, content hierarchy, and action patterns that repeat throughout the entire application.
The core layout pattern that serves as the foundation for all Agent Studio screens
The Workflow Evolution: This layout pattern enabled a progressive approach to AI-powered development:
Created the core layout pattern and initial screens in Figma—the Agents list view and Agent edit/detail pages. These established the visual language, component usage, and interaction patterns for the entire system.
Built these initial Figma designs in code manually, teaching the AI agent the patterns, component structure, and implementation details. The agent learned how to translate the design system into production-ready React code.
With the patterns established, prompted the trained AI agent to build the Dashboard and Knowledge Management pages directly from specification documents—no Figma designs required. The agent understood the layout pattern and design system well enough to generate complete, consistent screens from written requirements.
"From manual Figma-to-code translation to AI generating complete screens from specs—the design system enabled this evolution in our development workflow."
Leading the design system for a multi-product SaaS platform serving government organizations. The challenge: create a unified design language that scales across diverse products while enabling rapid development and maintaining consistency.
The solution: a comprehensive design system with 100% pattern coverage, AI-powered workflows, and production-ready components that work seamlessly across the entire product suite.
Agent Studio demonstrates the design system's capabilities—a complete AI agent management platform built entirely with the pattern library, showcasing consistent patterns across complex workflows.
Dashboard overview showcasing consistent card layouts, navigation, and data visualization patterns
Assistants management with unified list patterns and action menus
Detailed agent configuration demonstrating form patterns, tabs, and content organization
Knowledge management with consistent table patterns and filtering
Document detail view demonstrating content layout and action patterns
Comprehensive dashboard view showing the full design system integration
Complete coverage of common UI patterns ensures designers and AI always have the right component.
Architected for AI-powered design generation with semantic naming and structured properties AI models can understand.
Built on established component libraries, ensuring compatibility with industry-standard patterns.
Pattern-based approach builds complex interfaces in minutes with consistent quality.
Single source of truth between design and code. No translation errors or inconsistencies.
Design Velocity: Pattern-based workflow with AI assistance dramatically reduced design and development time. Agent Studio's complete interface was built in a fraction of the time traditional methods would require.
Consistent Experience: Unified design language across all views—from dashboards to detail pages to management interfaces—ensures users experience a cohesive product regardless of which feature they're using.
Code Quality: Design tokens and component library generate consistent, accessible, production-ready code. Single source of truth eliminates translation errors and inconsistencies.
Scalability: System successfully scales from simple list views to complex data-heavy interfaces like agent configuration and knowledge management workflows.
AI-Powered Development: 80% of Agent Studio's designs were generated using AI workflows powered by the design system, proving the system enables true AI-driven product development.
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