Config 2024: Design systems best practices | Figma

Config 2024: Design systems best practices

Take a dive into all things design systems— from establishing solid foundations like library structure and variables, to tips and best practices to optimize your system for growth and adoption.
Ana, Chad, and Alexia will share their collective insights from working with design systems firsthand and helping thousands of teams set up their libraries for success.

Featuring: Ana Boyer, Designer Advocate, Figma & Alexia Danton, Designer Advocate, Figma & Chad Bergman, Designer Advocate, Figma,

[baowarrior]

the number 1 metric for a design system is adoption.. always remember that.

[STalvacchia]

It seems like the more layered, interactive, and complex the design becomes, the more the prototype struggles. Interactions start to lag bad with hover states getting stuck all over the place and everything moving slowly. This has become a serious issue for me.

[stevedennis]

Hey thanks for the shoutout on the deprecation article :) Definitely going to check out the Verizon talk and see what we can adopt there. Our approach was very much hacking around the shortcomings of Figma 3+ years ago, lots of room for continuous improvement.

[AndreasKaramalikis]

feels like feature creep, Figma trying to make designers dependent on their systems (imho). Would love Figma to help me conduct better usability tests and capture ongoing user feedback

[rossbentley]

Great talk, loved all that was said. Great tips thank you!

[Underhills]

An open source generic accessible component library would be nice, as an addition to the native Material and HI. Then we could all just relate to three global component libraries and build our brand and patterns around them. A United Nations DS 🌎

[jamietreyvaud]

Great stuff thanks for the great tips!

[dimakifuliak]

Where is talk with TE “a look inside teenage engineering”?Just yesterday it was on the channel

[charlieb]

Does anyone else think that Figma desperately needs to address how complicated Variables are? As a designer I’ve been trying on and off to understand it over the last year and I’m still completely lost.

[kakuzep]

Can you provide to us Spanish subtitles? Ana Speaks so fast! 😅😅

[ismawatinurjannah]

Hi guys, how i input like arrow down under sub properties like on 13:46?

[rodmm]

they keep showing the branding functionality as something common but it is only for organizations. So freelancers and small companies are not cared for as usual. Most of the times this presentations are out of touch with the reality of half of figma users. This is only geared to cash grab money from big company clients

[ProfRa]

You don’t have the right to train your ai off of our designs. Penpot is looking pretty good nowadays.

[fkfelix]

the second speaker needs to slow down! She speaks too fast!

[fkfelix]

Figma. You adding too much complexity to the design. It's becoming more & more difficult and overwhelming. I find myself doing more technical stuff than design itself.

[UInify]

Speak so fast and is so difficult understand the meaning, really I hate this presentation. So sad.

[INXIETE]

Ironically, the new UI is the worst update ever. It adds so much complexity, without much value except for looks. Also, it ruins the whole easy-to-use experience. Focus your resources on something else Figma team.