A design system is a collection of components and guidelines used to create a consistent visual brand across all digital products of an organization. It’s a set of rules that define the look and feel of an entire product experience, from the user interface to the content.
Design systems help keep everything organized and consistent, ensuring that users have an easier time navigating through your product.
Organizing a design system in Figma is a relatively simple process. First, create a project for your design system.
This will be the central hub where all the components and guidelines will live. It’s important to keep things organized here as this will be what other designers reference when they need to find something.
Next, create folders for each component or guideline you’re going to include in your design system. This could include things like colors, typography, icons, buttons, inputs, and so on. Within each folder you can have multiple sub-folders with different variations or states of that component.
Once you have all your folders and components set up, it’s time to start styling them. You can do this manually by setting up text styles for fonts and color styles for colors, or you can use Figma’s auto-styling feature which automatically generates styles based on the properties you set.
Once you have all your components styled it’s time to create guidelines for how they should be used in different contexts. For example, if you have a button component you might want to specify how big it should be on mobile versus tablet versus desktop devices.
Finally, once everything is set up make sure you document everything thoroughly so other designers can easily access and understand all the different parts of your design system. You can do this by creating an interactive style guide that outlines all the rules and guidelines in one place.
Conclusion:
Creating a design system in Figma is not difficult but it does require some planning and organizing upfront before getting started. Start by creating a project for your design system and then add folders for each component or guideline you want to include in it.
Style all your components with text styles for fonts and color styles for colors or use Figma’s auto-styling feature. Finally document everything thoroughly by creating an interactive style guide so other designers can easily access and understand your design system.