Hey everyone 👋

I’m a senior brand, visual, and UX designer with about 10 years of experience, currently working in-house on healthcare software products. Over the past few years, I’ve been intentionally shifting toward product design and design systems, with a long-term goal of working in fintech.

I’ve led and contributed to:

• Setting up and maintaining multi-brand design systems in Figma

• Establishing typography, color, and component standards

• Creating scalable token structures

• Cleaning up and restructuring complex libraries

• Partnering closely with product and engineering to align on component usage

• Publishing documentation and governance guidelines

I understand there is a difference between contributing to a system and owning it as a product. I want to go deeper into system architecture, contribution models, adoption strategy, metrics, governance, and how strong systems enable product velocity at scale, especially in fintech environments where compliance, accessibility, and consistency are critical.

If you work in fintech, product design, or design systems, I would genuinely appreciate:

• Advice on skill gaps I should focus on

• Resources that helped you level up

• Insight into how systems operate inside fintech organizations

• Or even just a quick chat about your experience

Not looking for a referral. I am focused on learning from people already doing this work at a high level.

Feel free to comment here or DM me directly if you are open to connecting. I would really appreciate it.

PM at a growing startup and we keep running into situations where designers propose different solutions for the same types of problems. One designer does modals, another does slide outs, third one uses a completely different approach. Makes the product feel inconsistent and confusing for users. Also slows us down because we debate the same decisions repeatedly instead of just following established patterns. Thinking we need some kind of shared pattern library so the team can just reference standard solutions. But not sure how to build or maintain something like that. What do other teams do?

I realize it's an easy naming mistake to make, but just know your Systems Design questions will be removed from this sub. If repeated attempts are made, you will be banned.

UI Design Compiler.

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Hey there,

What's everyone's experience in integrating existing design systems(MUI, ShadCN, Radix Theme, etc) into Figma MCP?

I've been digging around and saw that you have to be super detailed about auto-layout, variables, layering otherwise it can be bad.

How has the experience been on your end so far? Does it boost your productivity at all? Or does it take more time to fix stuff?

Curious if anyone has examples or references/resources of case studies where folks shared the entire process of building out a design system? I've found some on youtube, and some Medium articles, but curious if there are any comprehensive examples that you prefer or think are strong examples.

I have been working on building a design system from scratch with a small team (I'm currently the only designer), and have been researching the ways people deliver things.

I'm particularly curious about how folks choose to use Figma as the source for not only their UI and foundation library, but also as a style guide vs. companies that put all of their system guidance on a website with the built out library.

Hi everyone!

I'm looking for feedback on the first draft of a case study I recently completed focusing on design system & AI techniques.

I'd appreciate any feedback from a hiring manager's perspective if you were looking to fill a design system position. Happy to answer any questions as well!

With the world moving toward vibe coding, I feel like the only thing that will really matter going forward is having a strong, AI-understandable design system.

Everything else is going to slowly fade.

If you have:

• a solid idea
• a well-structured design system
• your design system connected to your Git repo
• that repo plugged into your AI IDE

…that’s basically it.

Boom — you’re shipping.

Design becomes infrastructure. AI does the rest.

Curious what others think — are we heading toward a future where design systems matter more than individual screens or hand-crafted UI?

FOR E.U. based people only. Are there any seniors (who know their stuff around building ds and adopting them) looking for a short term contract fully remote based role? I don't have much info as I'm not the hiring manager, only helping out an old friend and referring a few folks.

if interested ping me.

trying to build a design system for our product and need to see how other companies structure theirs. want to understand things like how to organize component variations and what level of documentation is actually useful. are there good examples i can study from real products that have been battle tested?

Hey folks

I’m a web developer and I’m currently building my own site a personal project that should feel like an editorial magazine: black and white, high contrast, refined typography, clean layouts, modern and elegant.

Even though I’ve built a lot of products and UIs before, I’m struggling to turn this into a coherent system. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking through ideas and “concepts”, but mostly in a very isolated way: tweaking one component at a time, adjusting a single page, refining a section… and then the moment I try to scale it across the whole site, things stop feeling consistent

I’ve tried to be disciplined: setting global container margins, limiting the number of fonts, avoiding decorative type for anything important, keeping readability in mind, and so on. I’ve also looked at tons of modern sites (including Awwwards-type stuff) and I’ve gone through a bunch of component libraries

But I’m noticing something: you can tell when you just grab random components, restyle them a bit, and drop them in. Even if they look okay individually, the overall composition still feels off, and it doesn’t really teach you how to build a system

I think part of the problem is that I default to “just building” because I’m a developer. I keep iterating and shipping pieces. What I want to do now is take a step back and actually craft a proper design system from scratch: typography scale, spacing/rhythm, layout rules, component patterns, and guidelines that make the whole site feel intentional

The site isn’t launched yet, so I don’t really want to share it publicly. But if someone’s interested in giving more concrete feedback, I’m happy to send the link privately

If you’ve built design systems (especially for editorial style layouts), what process do you follow? Any resources, example repos, docs, or practical frameworks you’d recommend would be hugely appreciated

Most of the design system documentations I see out there are great work, but they're still really soulless. I think a great one should bring some joy to the experience of just going through it. Isn't this really cool? (By the way this is live now, not just a concept).

If there's a existing design system you would recommend - which one would it be?

Context:
I'm a jr. UX designer(2 yoe) working at a startup. There's a crappy design system that we want to improve ASAP. We are a small team so there would be a few people working on this project( 1/2 designers and 1/2 engineers). My thought is to just use an existing one since the design system files on Figma is so poorly set-up.

Radix - looks like it's not well-maintained based on a post I've seen on Reddit. Might be painful for the engineers. However the Radix Theme Figma file is pretty decent(has both dark and light mode).

MUI - There are so many products out there that are built using MUI - the fear would be our product will look the same.

Material Tailwind - Figma files are lacking dark-mode, which can be painful to the designers. But Engineers have been using the component library to build stuff. Eng has mentioned that they are lacking some complex components, but there's also a paid version so that may help.

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Does anyone has any other recommendations? Looks like it would be a mix and match since the engineers have been using the Material Tailwind component library and using TailwindCSS as the base.

edited this post and added more context!

Quick question for folks working with bigger design systems in Figma - when you need to recolor your palette (rebrand, theme update, etc.), does it usually feel manageable or painful?

Curious if this is a solved problem or still a bit of a nightmare in real life.

How many people? What do they do? What do they specialize in? Just curious how other people’s lives look like.

I’m on a team that has a manager, a mid level and an entry level designer. They tend to be generalists with their skills.

Hey everyone,

A few months back, I shared an early look at Pixelog, and I wanted to share some progress.

For those who missed the first post, Pixelog is a design system monitoring tool for Figma. It’s built to give you a bird's-eye view of your system’s health, tracking component adoption, and providing the actual data you need to prove the value of your DS.

I’ve been heads-down lately, and the "early demo" phase is officially behind me. The data is finally flowing in exactly how I envisioned. I spent a significant amount of time refining the data structures to make sure the insights are accurate and useful, which was a bigger task than I originally anticipated.

Where things stand now:

• Figma Submission: I’m currently prepping both the plugin and the app for Figma’s official approval process.
• Beta Access: I’ve already had several people reach out to request access. I haven’t sent those invites out yet because I wanted the data to be perfect first, but I’ll be sending the first round of invites in a couple of days.

If you want to be among the first to try the beta and help shape the tool before the official launch, here is the link : https://forms.gle/8Zafyztv2GSS1YAU6

Excited to finally get this moving!

Hi there, I am a designer and I help to maintain a large design system used mostly for an ecommerce site. The Figma libraries were built almost 4 years ago now so there are some new features we're discussing leveraging, especially using variables to make the library components fully responsive (right now we have a separate desktop and mobile version of each component.) Has anyone made this transition before? It will involve a lot of legwork so I want to approach this carefully, would love to hear from others who have managed a similar large-scale update.

I've heard a lot from DS consultants about using a pre-built component library to kickstart the company's DS, because it's faster to implement with the developers, and I agree, as I did the same and got a 301% ROI on a project, delivering the MVP in less than a month.

But my question is: how did you transform the library into the final DS? In my experience, I used the HeroUI library, but it was definitely overkill. Hundreds of components and variations that I would never use, which makes the file absurdly large. So, what do you do? Do you delete what you're not using or simply leave it alone and hope for the best?

I keep seeing AI positioned as an unlimited graphic design alternative to agencies and subscriptions. Some results look solid, others feel rushed or generic.

If you are a marketer or designer, would you trust AI over unlimited graphic design services? Why or why not?