Building and maintaining a design system is one of the most tedious parts of a product design job. A new Figma feature took a lot of that weight off my shoulders last month.
Everyone knows AI agents can design directly on your canvas, read context, and then translate it into code. So I tried using Claude to extend my initial design system, which contains only a base component for the main user flow and variables.
And here is what it did.
First, Claude read my existing tokens, styles, and components. Then it analyzed them and proposed what was missing from my system. I also just told it which components I wanted to build.
And it didn't generate random UI. It built components using my established variables and styles. It also created fully working components with variants, properties, and states.
The result was decent. It helped me build components in less time, even though I was directing Claude and steering it in the right direction.
If you're still building components manually, it might be worth trying.
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