Impact and adoption

Pando Design System: a case study

Pando Design System case study

Pando Design System case study

Pando is Pluralsight’s design system. As its Principal Product Designer, I built the component library, drove adoption, and kept the decisions grounded in accessibility. The goal was making Pando the thing designers reach for without thinking about it.

Read more
AI and design systems

Claude Code and the Figma MCP

Claude Code and the Figma MCP

Claude Code and the Figma MCP

Claude Code can connect to Figma through the Figma Model Context Protocol server, which turns Figma into a tool the agent can call. With the Pando skill loaded and the codebase in scope, a prompt in the terminal produces editable Pando components on the Figma canvas.

Read more
AI and design systems

A Claude skill for the Pando Design System

The Pando Design System Claude skill

The Pando Design System Claude skill

I built a Claude skill that encodes the Pando Design System, from its components and tokens to its accessibility standards, content guidelines, and authoring patterns. Once loaded, Claude produces on-system output by default across Claude Code, Figma Make, and chat, without re-explaining the rules every session.

Read more

Vibe improvements

This image was created by ChatGPT with the prompt 'Create a cool looking, minimal hero image for a blog post about vibe coding'

This image was created by ChatGPT with the prompt 'Create a cool looking, minimal hero image for a blog post about vibe coding'

Using AI to “vibe code” some improvements to this place after a good number of years of neglect.

Read more