Ep 95: When Docs Becomes a Liability
From Design System Office Hours by Davy Fung + PJ Onori
February 11, 2026 · 38 min
About this episode
Davy and PJ discuss the challenges of stale documentation and the importance of human oversight in AI applications, along with automation solutions using Figma’s API.
Davy and PJ discuss the "liability" of stale documentation and why AI still needs human oversight. They explore using Figma’s API to automate visual updates and kill the "pain in the butt" of manual maintenance.
People in this episode
Hosts: Davy Fung, PJ Onori
Topics covered
- documentation
- AI oversight
- Figma API
- automation
- design maintenance
Keywords
- stale documentation
- AI
- human oversight
- Figma API
- automation
- design systems
- manual maintenance
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Figma
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