zeroheight

@zeroheight.com

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zeroheight enables teams to document, deliver, track, and manage their design system all in one place. 🚀 We also host Converge, Design System Awards and Design Systems Report 🤓

zeroheight blog header on a lavender background reading "The mobile accessibility gap most design systems ignore."
Screenshot of a chat interface showing AI assistant auditing a design system styleguide. After a user asks for an audit of inconsistencies and gaps, the assistant reports using the styleguide integration, then displays summary stats — 5 critical gaps, 8 inconsistencies, 4 structural issues, 3 strengths noted.
Dark promotional graphic for zeroheight's Design System Maturity Model, reading 'How mature is your design system? Six axes. Four stages. One honest picture of your design system.' A collage of colourful line-art icons (question mark, heart, arrow, document, stacked blocks, sparkles) fills the right side, with a 'Take the test' button below.
Blog header on a cream background with the headline 'Are Figma components just another kind of design system documentation?' alongside an illustration of a hand holding a button component, a question mark, a toggle switch, and the Figma icon. zeroheight logo.
License to Build Episode _002 promo on a lavender background, for Tuesday 21st July 2026, 4.00pm BST / 11.00am ET / 8.00 PT. Heading: 'Briefing agents to scaffold components in Figma.' Four illustrated spy-like characters in hats and sunglasses hold tools including goggles, a magnifying glass, a drone, and a component-labelled card. A black-and-white photo shows speaker Luke Murphy, Principal Design Advocate at zeroheight, smiling.
Blog banner reading 'Mount Contribution: A framework for more effective design system contributions.' To the right, hand-drawn illustrations of a teal letter "a", a peach circle with an arrow, grey mountains, a pink "Button" shape, a cursor, and decorative swirls, on a pale pink background. zeroheight logo bottom left.
Screenshot of a code editor showing a diff for a savings dashboard component. On the left, highlighted code changes show updated Button components and layout elements. On the right, an AI assistant panel summarises the changes, including updated design system components, icons and design tokens.
What's new" graphic on a dotted cream background. Bold black headline reads "What's new." To the right, illustrated elements float around a laptop: a colour swatch, a card with an icon, a screenshot thumbnail featuring an illustrated character face with a purple triangle overlay, a teal MCP icon, sparkles, a cursor, and a friendly illustrated character giving a thumbs up behind the laptop screen. The zeroheight logo appears bottom left.
Webinar banner for 'License to Build: Briefing agents to build on-system code, then audit it,' Tuesday 7th July 2026, 4.00pm BST / 11.00am ET / 8.00am PT. Illustration of a spy-like character in a fedora and sunglasses holding a folder, alongside a code icon and a checklist with tick and cross marks, on a mint green grid background.
Blog header image for a zeroheight article titled "Eliminate the back-and-forth in developer handovers with AI agents." The illustration shows a friendly pixel-art robot juggling three coloured tiles representing design system components — orange with a sync icon, mint green with a component icon, and purple with a code/token icon — alongside a cursor arrow and sparkle details.
Webinar banner for 'License to Build: Briefing agents to build on-system code, then audit it,' Tuesday 7th July 2026, 4.00pm BST / 11.00am ET / 8.00am PT. Illustration of a spy-like character in a fedora and sunglasses holding a folder, alongside a code icon and a checklist with tick and cross marks, on a mint green grid background.
Converge 2026. Guess the speaker.
Promotional graphic for zeroheight's Design System Maturity Model. Black background with a large dark red question mark on the right. White bold headline reads "How mature is your design system?" Subtext reads "Six axes. Four stages. One honest picture of your design system." zeroheight logo in the bottom left, red "Take the test" button in the bottom right.
An illustrated hand holds a collection of design system elements — a teal tile with a group icon, an orange tile with an arrow, a heart shape, and a textured card — alongside a clock, a cursor, and decorative squiggle details. The image accompanies a zeroheight blog post titled "How to start a design token system with confidence."
A screenshot inside Figma, showing a prompt that reads "Check my component follows the guidelines in @zeroheight." The zeroheight MCP connector is selected, and a partial view of a design file is visible behind the interface.
Config 2026 main stage at Moscone Centre, San Francisco
Blog header image for "Renovating a design system: Why modernization should feel like turning dials, not flipping switches." A illustrated character juggles oversized UI components — a red button, a toggle switch, and a pink clock — against a light pink background. The zeroheight logo sits in the bottom left corner.
A promotional graphic for Pixel Pioneers. On the left, a photo of Luke smiling, wearing glasses and a dark jacket, standing in front of green foliage. On the right, a dark pink panel with the Pixel Pioneers logo at the top, followed by the name "Luke Murphy", and the text "⚡ Lightning Talk: Design Systems are Dead. Long Live Design Systems — Bristol, 19 June 2026".
A zeroheight styleguide for the fictional "Synapse design system" sits at the centre of the image, showing sections for Foundation, Style, Components, and Resources & Tools. Surrounding the styleguide are logos of popular developer and design tools - including VS Code, Figma, Claude, v0, Cursor, and others - floating against a purple background, illustrating how zeroheight's MCP integration connects a design system to the tools teams already use.
A dark green branded quote card featuring the Sage logo. A testimonial from Julien Vaniere, Design System Director at Sage, reads: "I want a very good source of truth, one that pushes knowledge into every corner of how we work. For us, zeroheight is that connective layer. Everything we've built connects back to it." The zeroheight logo appears in the bottom left corner. Labelled Sage / Case study.
A colourful illustration featuring two people - one with black hair and red round glasses, the other with auburn hair, a beard, and yellow glasses. They're surrounded by playful doodles of squiggles, dots, and wavy lines in red, yellow, and blue. Bold hand-lettered text at the top reads "DESIGN SYSTEMS WTF." The zeroheight logo appears in the bottom right corner.
Illustrated LinkedIn ad for zeroheight. Headline reads: "Exporting tokens is the easy part." Subheading: "What comes out the other side isn't production-ready." A cartoon character peeks over a laptop with a content expression. Tagged "Product Deep Dive." zeroheight logo in the bottom left.
Blog post header image from zeroheight with the title 'Design system documentation is everywhere, but belongs to no one.' accompanied by a playful pixel-art robot surrounded by floating design and code elements including a component card, a red label reading 'props.hint text', a typography character, and a thumbs-down icon.
Event banner for Hops & Props — join zeroheight at Config. Monday June 22, Barebottle, Salesforce Park. Free to attend. A cartoon beer mug character gives a thumbs up. A red banner reads: free drinks on us! RSVP today!
Blog post cover image for "Meet Elizabeth: 9 practical ways to design for a low-vision user", featuring illustrated icons including an accessibility symbol, a heart, an eye with an X, a teal number 9, and a cursor arrow, on a light lavender background.
Slide 5 "67% think AI is overhyped."
Slide 1 "State of AI in Design Systems Report, 2026 Edition. Text reads: We surveyed 123 design practitioners about the State of AI in Design Systems."
The zeroheight Assistant for Figma
zeroheight assistant
Webinar promotional graphic for "The State of AI in Design Systems: What the data actually says" by zeroheight, featuring playful illustrated characters including a smiling teal blob and a stick figure holding a pie chart.
Report banner: "The State of AI in Design Systems, 2026 Edition" with a "Read the report" call-to-action button, on a dark background with pixelated design system icons.
Illustration for a blog post titled “The future of design systems — part 1: The product your design system is actually building.” The graphic features playful UI and design elements including a smiling robot face, a user profile card, a large purple button labeled “Button,” and abstract squiggles and shapes on a light gray background. The zeroheight logo appears in the bottom left corner.
zeroheight AI
Blog post header from zeroheight with the title "A design system is a system of truth." alongside a playful illustration featuring icons including a magnifying glass, heart, eye, and pie chart on a light purple background.
Illustrated blog cover for zeroheight featuring the title 'The design system contribution habits that build communities, not just components', alongside pixel-art style icons of a lightbulb, typography, a heart, and a people symbol
zeroheight Assistant demo video
Promotional webinar graphic for “Design Systems Report 2026” featuring two speakers, Morgane Peng and Natalya Shelburne, with date/time (Apr 20, 2026, 4:30–5:30 PM) and abstract brown/orange design elements.
"Blog post header from zeroheight titled 'Rethinking design systems in the open' with an abstract illustration of design-related icons."
Image for “Converge 2026” design systems conference featuring a pixelated bird graphic, with event details (October 22, 2026, Newcastle, UK) and a call to “Get early bird tickets.”
Promotional webinar graphic for the Design Systems Report 2026 featuring speakers Morgane Peng and Natalya Shelburne, event date April 20, 2026, and the message “We need more people.”
Converge 2026 design systems conference poster with pixel-art icons, date (Oct 22, 2026), Newcastle, UK location, and a “super early bird tickets” call-to-action.
AI in design systems survey graphic with checklist icon
Promotional webinar graphic with bold “DSR” lettering, featuring two speakers with headshots, names, and roles, titled “Adoption as an existential challenge” scheduled for April 7, 2026.
Pink blog header graphic with the text ‘AI in design systems: What’s changing in 2026’ and the Zeroheight logo. On the right, a playful illustration shows a robot-like face surrounded by floating design elements, including a cursor icon, envelope, typography letter ‘a,’ and a UI toggle switch
Promotional webinar graphic for the Design Systems Report 2026 featuring speakers Elyse Holladay and John Voss, with event date (March 24, 2026) and title “AI and Design Systems: The Promise and The Reality.”
The Design Systems Report 2026
Design System Report - Only 4 days to go - 17th March 2026
Blog cover image with the headline ‘The hidden business case for design systems: From reducing engineering load to unlocking AI readiness’ beside a playful illustration of a smiling robot juggling colorful UI component tiles. zeroheight logo at bottom.
Design systems can't automate away all of your accessibility considerations
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Product deep dive webinar: Setting up your Figma files for success