3 practical ways LLMs can support design systems teams today
October 28, 2025
When AI and LLMs started creeping into the design systems discourse, the loudest use cases were about generating components and docs. But the truth is that for many teams, those aren’t actually the hardest problems to solve.At the end of 2024 and start of 2025, the attitude across the design systems community was flat-out negative toward AI. The DS space seemed deeply skeptical of claims that AI could do anything useful for us. At the time, the only examples I ever heard were: It can write components, and it can generate documentation.It can: But I don’t think either of those is actually a good use case for LLMs in design systems.
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How can large-language models help teams work with design systems? Given there certainly seems to be a lot of benefit for software engineers in working with large language models, what carries over to design systems, a practise certainly adjacent to and overlapping with engineering. And what doesn’t work?
Here, Elyse Holladay looks at where large language models might not do the job and where they may be valuable.
