Figma is a collaborative design tool that helps designers create and maintain design systems. It offers a centralized environment where design assets, components, and guidelines can be developed, shared, and updated collaboratively. Figma streamlines the process of designing, prototyping, and ensuring design consistency across products and applications within an organization.

What is a design system, and how do you create one?

A design system is a collection of reusable components, guidelines, and assets that help maintain consistency and efficiency in the design process. It serves as a single source of truth for designers, developers, and stakeholders. Here’s a great introduction to design systems. Creating a design system involves defining typography styles, color palettes, grid systems, iconography, and other visual elements that align with the brand's identity.

What are some examples of design systems?

You can discover many open design systems in the Figma community from top companies like Airtable, Amplify, and Atlassian.

Figma for design systems

A design system for everyone

Create shared assets and libraries that the whole team can access. Figma enables design system adoption for more consistency and efficiency.

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Toggles, shapes, letters, and bounding boxes layered over a grid as part of a design system

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Design systems that scale

Collaborate together on reusable assets to create a design system that enables consistency and innovation across teams and products.

A library of icons, colors, typeface styles, and spacers

Create structure for faster innovation

Standardize styles, variables, and components so that everything from color to padding scales seamlessly across your products and brands.

Share libraries for more consistency

Publish assets in team libraries so the latest approved design elements are always a drag and drop away.

Scale your design systems as your product grows

Powerful design systems capabilities, like variable modes, help you scale across use cases, themes, and more.

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Explore design system features

Streamline the product development process with a design system that’s aligned across design and code.

A light mode and dark mode view of app product shots for exporting

Implement design tokens

Use variables and modes to implement design tokens for you design system. Use color tokens to swap between light and dark modes, or typography tokens to change fonts between brands, and so much more.

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