DesignGuard AI blog
Notes on keeping design and code honest.
Practical writing on design system governance, Figma-to-code drift, and the workflows that keep a design system from quietly becoming a suggestion.
Product updates
5 min readThe Design Token That Never Became a Rule
A hardcoded color that shows up once can be more dangerous than one that repeats forty times. Here's why we rebuilt how DesignGuard scores drift severity — and the two blind spots that prompted it.
Product updates
3 min readReach and Frequency Are Now Badges, Not a Sentence You Have to Parse
The numbers that actually drive severity were accurate from day one — they were just sitting inside a paragraph you had to read closely to find. Now they're badges you can scan in half a second.
Product updates
4 min readDesignGuard Now Re-Scans Your Figma Files the Moment You Publish
Until now, DesignGuard only knew about a Figma change when someone remembered to click re-import. Live sync closes that gap: publish in Figma, and the re-scan just happens.
Code Connect
9 min readFigma Code Connect: A Practical Guide
Figma's own docs are accurate but scattered across a dozen pages. This is the practical, start-to-finish version: what Code Connect does, how to set it up, and what trips people up at scale.
Design systems
5 min readWhat Is a Design System Audit?
If you own a design system, you've probably had this moment: a screen ships that technically uses your components, but something about it feels off. Here's how to catch that before it compounds.