"Design systems break not because designers don't care but because maintaining consistency at scale is genuinely hard. Tokens drift, naming becomes messy, documentation gets outdated, and what started as a neat system slowly turns into a fragile one. But AI can help you keep your design system up to date. One of my favorite coding tools, Claude, can act as a design systems assistant for another my favorite design tool, Figma,"
"helping with the unglamorous work: create ready-to-use token structures, extracting styles, auditing variables, fixing inconsistencies, and even documenting how the system should be used. In this article, I'll show 4 practical workflows where combining Figma & Claude becomes a powerful accelerator for design system work. 1. Generate tokens formatted for Figma Variables When to use: Early in the design process, when you need a robust foundation for style variables on which you can build a consistent, scalable UI."
Maintaining consistency across design systems at scale is difficult, causing tokens to drift, naming to become messy, and documentation to fall out of date, which makes systems fragile. AI can help keep design systems up to date by handling routine, unglamorous tasks. Claude can serve as a design-systems assistant for Figma, creating ready-to-use token structures, extracting styles, auditing variables, fixing inconsistencies, and documenting recommended usage. Combining Figma and Claude enables practical workflows that accelerate design system work and generating Figma-formatted tokens early provides a robust foundation for scalable, consistent user interfaces.
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