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  And Beyond: Charting the AI-Era Design System

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  I envisioned the AI-era design system strategy before the org asked for one. I set the path, built the artifacts, and rallied the people.

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• Fluent, Fluently: Architecting a System for Model Legibility

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  I defined how Fluent exposes itself to AI and how AI could help build Fluent.

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• Fluent Hoopla Labs: Building Competence through Mind(set) Games

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  I demystified how a design system team of 40+ designers and engineers could apply AI and systems thinking to their daily work.

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• Governing the Onion: Design System Intelligence Layers

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  AI tools come and go. The layers underneath them are what need governing. I wrote the strategy that named the principle, and proved it at three scales: knowledge, operations, assets.

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• Comms and Contribs: Designing Participation and Buy-In

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  Communication and contribution conventions are system design, not PM work. I designed the participation conditions that brought Currency out of stealth, and that let Fluent scale with humans and agents both.

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• Digging Out the Docs: From Information Archaeology to Architecture

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  Information architecture in complex product ecosystems usually starts with information archaeology. I dug through the doc landscape, created taxonomies, built the IA tree, and authored the style sheet that systematized documentation across the enterprise.

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