Into Design Systems Weekly - Build Design Systems with Figma Tokens

Hey Design System Friend, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystems🪐space:

How to save time building a Design System in Figma with Figma Tokens — intodesignsystems.medium.com Esther is a Design System Specialist and the co-creator of the Figma Tokens Plugin. She is the master behind Headless Multibrand Design System, which Figma Tokens fully automate. Esther is…

Figma Component Property Update - What you need to know and how to prepare your component — blog.prototypr.io This year’s Figma Config event revealed to us such a marvelous feature called Component Properties. It allowed us to simplify the components and rethink their structure. Now we receive a significant…

Auditing design system health with time and a spreadsheet — medium.com Auditing design system health with time and a spreadsheet. “The best tool available today for exploring real-life questions of quantity and change is the spreadsheet.” — Bret Victor, “Kill Math”.

Introducing DesignOps into the team — medium.com Two years ago, my team and I faced a radical change in the management team that led us to spend several months without a direct leader in the design area. The apprehension due to the changes in the…

A collection of Design Systems for Figma from all over the globe 🌎 — www.designsystemsforfigma.com A collection of Design Systems for Figma from all over the globe.

A Designer's Balancing Act: Staying Creative and Organized in Figma — spotify.design Carly shows us her strategy to ensure Figma files are set up for exploring freeform designs while also creating space for collaboration and clarity.

Couple small tricks in Figma components — medium.com I use components all the time, at the moment i build 90–95% of the screens with component based system and rarely use some custom input, because at the end of the day every thing on the screen will…

Figma UI Kits:

(v10) White Theme - Carbon Design System | Figma Community — www.figma.com Carbon is the design system for IBM web and product. It is a series of individual styles, components, and guidelines used for creating unified UI.

Design System Videos:

The Future of Design Tokens - James Nash - Into Design Systems — www.youtube.com #DesignTokens #DesignSystems 👋🏻 Missed the conference?22 unique Design System 🎬 Recordings now on sale: https://www.intodesignsystems.com

Design System Podcasts:

Ep 17.5 Long Live Figma (BONUS) by Design System Office Hours — anchor.fm Davy and PJ react to the earth-shattering news that Adobe is “teaming up" with Figma, and what that may or may not mean to us. Episode Transcripts

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