AI-Native Design
Your design system can express "primary button" but can't express "I'm 70% sure about this." It handles hover states but not confidence gradients. It ships a spinner but has no vocabulary for what "thinking" looks like when it carries meaning.
That's the gap. AI-native design is the practice of closing it — building design systems that treat AI behaviors as first-class primitives, not afterthoughts bolted onto component libraries built for a deterministic world.
Where to start
Start with Eight Dimensions. It's the framework everything else builds on — eight shifts that separate design systems built for the last era from the ones built for this one.
Then read The Scorecard. It takes the framework and grades Fluent UI and Material Design against it. Fluent gets 25 out of 80. Material gets 22. Neither has any vocabulary for expressing AI confidence to users. The numbers make the gap concrete.