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Zeroheight

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Velocity0.0

Design system documentation making itself the constraint on AI-generated UI

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◆Current state
Three releases in February, each recorded twice. An AI Assistant embedded in SSO-protected styleguides lets viewers chat with the guidelines to find tokens and guidance. The same Assistant became available inside Slack and Microsoft Teams via mention. And a Figma-verified connector for Figma Make brings documented design system guidance into AI-powered prototyping.
◆Where it's heading
zeroheight's problem has always been that documentation nobody opens does not govern anything. All three releases attack that from different sides: bring the docs to where people already are (Slack, Teams), let them be asked instead of read (Assistant), and inject them into the tool that generates UI (Figma Make). The last is the most consequential, because it changes documentation from a reference into an input.
◆Prediction
Expect connectors for further AI generation surfaces beyond Figma Make, since the Figma Make integration establishes the pattern of design system guidance as generation context rather than as a page someone consults.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5mo ago

    zeroheight AI Assistant is now available for styleguide viewers

    An AI chatbot embedded in SSO-protected styleguides so viewers can ask for tokens and guidance rather than search for them. It addresses the consumption side of the same problem the Figma Make connector addresses at generation time.

  2. 5mo ago

    zeroheight AI Assistant is now available for styleguide viewers

    Duplicate record of the AI Assistant for viewers, published a day earlier. Cited once above.

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  3. 5mo ago

    zeroheight Connector for Figma Make: On-system prototyping

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    The release that changes what a design system is for: guidance stops being reference material and becomes context the generator reads before it produces UI.

  4. 5mo ago

    zeroheight Connector for Figma Make: On-system prototyping

    Duplicate record of the Figma Make connector announcement. Cited once above.

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  5. 5mo ago

    Bring your design system into Slack and Microsoft Teams with the zeroheight Assistant

    The Assistant becomes mentionable inside Slack and Microsoft Teams. Moving documentation into the conversation is the lowest-friction version of the same distribution argument.

  6. 5mo ago

    Bring your design system into Slack and Microsoft Teams with the zeroheight Assistant

    Duplicate record of the Slack and Teams release. The feed publishes each announcement twice a day apart.

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