Month-by-month feed of what shifted, who was hiring, and how Starter, Scaler, and Titan teams actually worked.
48 synthesized monthsin the data layer. Stage breakdowns (Starter / Scaler / Titan) are available for 2026 only — earlier months show under the All segment but won’t appear under stage filters until the design-context pipeline runs further back.
Constraint libraries replace portfolios as the new calling card.
Figma AI (agent mode) → Adobe Firefly (governed outputs) → Cursor / v0 (prompt-to-code)
Brand governance systems become the competitive infrastructure layer.
Figma Enterprise (agent governance) → Adobe GenStudio → Internal model fine-tuning pipelines
Enterprise design governance becomes regulated, auditable, and cross-channel.
Proprietary brand-model infrastructure → Enterprise AI governance platforms → Adobe GenStudio (enterprise tier)
Prompt-to-brand-kit in a single sprint
Midjourney → Figma → Framer
Vibe-coding and AI site-builders collapse the handoff, so one person who spans brand taste and Framer/code deployment is worth three specialists.
First design system with agent-readable token governance
Figma → Runway → v0
At Series A–C scale, the design system is now the governance layer for AI agent output—whoever owns tokens owns brand coherence across the org.
Brand governance infrastructure replaces campaign-by-campaign review
Runway → Adobe Firefly → Figma
Titans running agent fleets at scale need one role that owns the rules layer—prompt constraints, token specs, and compliance audits—not just creative direction.