HOW TO REDUCE AI DRIFTING IN DESIGN

Summary from the TLDR Design newsletter

Design systems drift when Figma components and front-end code fall out of sync, and AI often widens that gap rather than closing it. A proposed fix uses "component contracts" — plain-language specs that become the shared source of truth — paired with harness engineering, deterministic guardrails surrounding an AI model. Testing showed an AI agent scored 100/100 building screens from a contract catalog, versus 69/100 when ungoverned.