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Optimizing Design Systems for Humans and Agents

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July 21, 2026
1:00 pm
CT
Virtual

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What you'll learn

What it actually means for an enterprise design system to be agent-ready, why most systems fall short today, and how to close the gap without rebuilding from scratch.

Download our AI-Ready Design System Checklist

Agenda

1. Why this matters now
How AI is reshaping product delivery and where design systems fit in

2. The acceleration problem
Output is faster, and drift is exponential

3. What design systems were built for
Why agents are reinforcing, not replacing, that need

4. The agent-ready audit framework
Eight dimensions for evaluating your system

5. Common symptoms of drift
How to recognize them in your own organization

6. From UI kit to agent-ready system
What the maturity curve looks like in practice?

7. Live audit walkthrough
Seeing the framework applied to a real example

8. Business impact
Translating system quality into operational and financial terms

9. Paths forward
Adopt, upgrade, or enable, depending on where you are today

10. Q&A

Read this first

If you want to place your own system before the session starts, walk through the 5 levels of an AI-ready design system. Most teams land at level two or three, and knowing which one you're on makes the live audit a lot more useful.

Book a design system deep dive

The presentation covered the principles. A call covers your system.

In 30 minutes we'll dig into the specific challenges you're hitting, share any advice we have, and figure out where we can help. We've worked with teams starting from zero and enterprises rebuilding systems that were never going to scale.

Bring whatever you've got. We'll tell you what we'd do first.

Presenters

Billy Sweetman
Head of Design
Tim Gremore
Development Lead

Join us live to ask your questions

By filling out this form you agree to receive super helpful updates about this event and newsletter updates on future events from Headway.
Past Event

Optimizing Design Systems for Humans and Agents

July 21, 2026
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What you'll learn

What it actually means for an enterprise design system to be agent-ready, why most systems fall short today, and how to close the gap without rebuilding from scratch.

Download our AI-Ready Design System Checklist

Agenda

1. Why this matters now
How AI is reshaping product delivery and where design systems fit in

2. The acceleration problem
Output is faster, and drift is exponential

3. What design systems were built for
Why agents are reinforcing, not replacing, that need

4. The agent-ready audit framework
Eight dimensions for evaluating your system

5. Common symptoms of drift
How to recognize them in your own organization

6. From UI kit to agent-ready system
What the maturity curve looks like in practice?

7. Live audit walkthrough
Seeing the framework applied to a real example

8. Business impact
Translating system quality into operational and financial terms

9. Paths forward
Adopt, upgrade, or enable, depending on where you are today

10. Q&A

Read this first

If you want to place your own system before the session starts, walk through the 5 levels of an AI-ready design system. Most teams land at level two or three, and knowing which one you're on makes the live audit a lot more useful.

Book a design system deep dive

The presentation covered the principles. A call covers your system.

In 30 minutes we'll dig into the specific challenges you're hitting, share any advice we have, and figure out where we can help. We've worked with teams starting from zero and enterprises rebuilding systems that were never going to scale.

Bring whatever you've got. We'll tell you what we'd do first.

Presented by
Billy Sweetman
Head of Design
Tim Gremore
Development Lead

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