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Most teams build a UI kit. Then the product grows, new features get added, new designers join, and every screen starts looking slightly different. Not broken, just inconsistent. Death by a thousand exceptions.
When I joined a B2B product environment, there was a basic UI kit, but no tokens, naming convention, or rules for how components should behave across contexts. Design debt was building quietly.
I didn’t start by redesigning screens. I started by defining the foundation: color tokens, spacing scale, typography, component states, and naming conventions. Only after that did screens get revisited.
The result: faster feature design, one reference point for developers, and less inconsistency compounding over time. The system is now used in production across multiple products by 1,000+ daily users.
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Figma just dropped Slots, and this is a semi-big deal.
If you've ever detached a component just to customise it, you know the pain. Lost link to the main component. No upstream updates. Design system slowly fractures.
Slots fixes this. Flexible zones inside components where you can add, remove, and rearrange content without detaching.
It means less components inside components inside components inside components...
→ Cards and modals with varying content
→ Nav menus with different item counts
→ Anything you've been creating 15 variants for
This also mirrors how components actually work in code. Engineers build with slots natively. Designers have been faking it. That gap just got smaller.
Rolling out in open beta now.
Slots is such a game-changer! No more painful detaches just to swap content. Design systems are about to get so much cleaner.
Just dropped my Design System on Figma Community — for free 🔥People are saying it's too much for a free resource.
Judge for yourself 👇
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