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What your design system can't teach AI agents (Tessl)
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Tessl's factory ships screens no designer touched, and a design system couldn't teach its agents composition, meaning what goes on a screen and what stays off. So it had agents diff generated screens against hand-redesigned ones, turned the differences into checkable rules, and shipped them as skills that run at creation and at review.
In plain words
- Tessl taught artificial intelligence (AI) to lay out software screens using a designer's corrections.
- The AI compared screens it had created with versions rearranged by a designer.
- Those differences became rules for what belongs on a screen and what should be left out.
- Tessl's team can apply a designer's judgment to every screen without requiring that designer to review each one.
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