2
HOW DESIGN
SYSTEMS AND AI
AGENTS ACCELERATE
PRODUCT DELIVERY
WE ARE A
113 YEAR OLD
BUSINESS
3
SIXT IS A GLOBAL
MOBILIY PLAYER
ACTIVE IN 110+
COUNTIRES WITH
>2.000 BRANCHES
4
Many external products / hundreds of internal apps
OUR PRODUCT LANDSCAPE
5
PLATFORM
WEB
SIXT TECH FACTS
8000+
Pods
112K+
Releases
1500+
Cloud Instances
Web Pages
400K+
6
40+
Web Domains
50+
Web Locales
HOW DO YOU
DELIVER QUALITY
AND SPEED AT 7
HAS TO BE WHITE-
LABEL TOO…
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A TALE OF TWO DESIGN SYSTEMS
EXTERNAL
(WEB AND APPS)
OXIDE
INTERNAL
(BACKOFFICE APPS)
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WHAT IS A DESIGN SYSTEM?
STYLE GUIDE
Defines the visual elements, such
as colors, typography, spacing
and iconography.
UI-KIT
Reusable building blocks like
buttons, forms, modals,
navigation and bars.
DESIGN
PATTERNS
Best practices and templates for
common use cases and
workflows.
DOCS
Detailed guidelines and
instructions on how to
implement and use the system.
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WHAT DID WE ACHIEVE
• Consistency and quality across
our product portfolio
• Shortening the feedback loops
between
product / design / engineering
• Knowledge and onboarding speed
• Increased delivery speed
• Decreased the hidden
“cost of alignment”
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THIS IS WHERE
THE STORY
CHANGES.
Then AI Arrived.
Design System meets AI
ON ITS OWN AI
PRODUCES LOADS OF
WORKING CODE…
JUST NOT THE
CODE WE WANT
“ “
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14
JAN 2025: FIRST LOOP
FROM DESIGN TO CODE
1.
DESIGN
PARSER
• Reads Figma
Designs
• Extracts Design
Tokens
• Identifies
Design System
Components
• Maps design
layers to design
sysem
components
• Validates
consistency
2.
COMPONENT
MAPPER
3.
CODE
GENERATOR
• Produces
platform code
(React / Swift /
Cotlin ) based
on context
• Applies design
tokens
• References
platform
architecture
standards
4.
POST
PROCESS
• Human in the
loop review of
produced
artefacts
• Bundles for
preview
5.
FINAL
REVIEW
ARCHITECTURE
Outcomes
SCREEN PIXEL MATCHING USED TO
TAKE UP TO 2 DAYS!
48H
NOW IT TAKES 15 MIN WITH THE
REVIEW
15MIN
Outcomes
IT’S NOT JUST
SPEED — IT’S
WHERE WE
SPEND OUR
Outcomes
Outcomes
IT COMPLETELY
CHANGES
PRODUCT
DISCOVERY
What
IT’S AN EVER
EVOLVING
SYSTEM
Whats next ?
ML Mobile
BUILD
/
DEPLOYMENT
/
OBSERVABILITY
LAYER
SECURITY
LAYER
CONTROL LAYER
Data Platform Web Platform
EDGE LAYER
DATA STREAM LAYER
Platform Libs*
Application
Platform Services*
Config Service
Identity
Discovery
Event
Schema
Identity &
Access
…
RUNTIME LAYER
INFRA LAYER
Kubernetes
Crossplane
linkerd
API GW*, Event GW*
Terraform Atlantis
Event Router*, Event Replay*, Event Archiver*
Jenkins
Instana
Prom
Github
Open
Search
OPA
Delivery
Platform*
Lynx*
* SIXT proprietary developments
Kafka
Sec
Bot*
Backoffice
Platform
VIBE-CODING
COMPLETE BACKOFFICE
APPLICATIONS WITH A
SINGLE PROMPT
CHAINING
AUTOMATIC
TESTING WITH
CODE
GENERATION
THE FINAL BOSS
ON-DEMAND DESIGN
+
INSTANT PRODUCT
GENERATION
+
QUALITY GATES
INVESTING IN
FOUNDATIONS PAYS
OFF
EXPONENTIALLY
THANK YOU

How Design Systems and AI Agents Accelerate Product Delivery Sixt