Emerging Design Tools and Trends Questions

Awareness of new tools, processes, and paradigms shaping the design practice. Topics include AI assisted design workflows, design tokens and theming, component driven design, evolving accessibility tooling, low code and headless trends, design ops and scale practices, and how to evaluate and pilot new tools. Candidates should articulate trade offs, adoption criteria, governance, impacts on handoff and delivery, and examples of when they recommended or rejected a tool or practice.