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Creating a Design System for 1B+ Users in the Age of AI

watch on portal.gitnation.org ↗https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/creating-a-design-system-for-1b-users-in-the-age-of-ai
Talkat JSNation 2026 · on Thursday, 2026-06-11· at 11:50· [design-collaboration, ai-assisted-development]

speaker

name:Noah Yamamoto
website:https://noahyamamoto.com

resources

video:https://portal.gitnation.org/contents/creating-a-design-system-for-1b-users-in-the-age-of-ai
slides:none on file

summary

Covers building a design system for WhatsApp Web—moving a billion-user platform and a 1M+ line-of-code frontend from no consistent design system to a newly created one. Describes how the project was pitched and implemented from scratch, and explains ways AI both accelerated the work and improves developer productivity when using the design system.

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