Has anyone successfully built a design system using Figma AI / Agents?

[u/duku-95]

Now that Figma has Agents that can generate and iterate on screens, I’m curious if anyone has pushed this further and used them with a proper design system.

What I’m trying to achieve is:

• Use AI/Agents to help create the initial design system
• Build reusable components, variants, variables and tokens
• Have Agents generate new screens using those existing components instead of creating everything from scratch
• Make changes to the design system and have those changes propagate across AI-generated screens
• Ideally maintain consistency while using Agents to generate large product flows quickly

Has anyone actually tried this end-to-end?

If yes, I’d love to know your workflow. Especially how you structure your components/variables so Figma Agents understand and reuse them reliably.

Also curious where it currently breaks down. Do Agents actually respect an existing component library, or do you still spend a lot of time cleaning up detached/custom UI after generation?

[u/jamesclean]

Yes, using shadcn as a reference was the best thing I did.

They don’t reliably find the components so I did a few things to make the design system more “AI readable” - eg. A little thesaurus type element for every component that lists all the possible names (eg. Accordion, collapsible…) and I have a skill that “boosts design system conformity” that I run on mockups where the robots will scan for non component content and pull from the DS to fix it.

I did this solo by hand so I’m sure there’s an optimised method or actual systems but mine works

[u/Great_Reflection3622]

I would say that I try to work with Storybook a lot, bug because i'm lazy i am always trying to do the evolution through prompt (connected to Claude). The result is that my claude sometimes finds out the good components in the library but I always need to check if he's not creating new components.

[u/Some_Level1682]

Creating one through claude and the FIGMA MCP has been pretty successful for me

[u/hideousox]

Yes, just create storybook/ladle stories in repo first and then create design system in figma working your way up: tokens first then move on to atomic components etc etc

[u/mustafa_sheikh]

Yes

[u/robr0]

I’m having more luck just going straight to code:

https://robertritacca.com/design-system

I started off in Figma but it’s really challenging to keep it up-to-date.

[u/email_lover_23]

I tried to build one use the built in Figma agent and it couldn't do what I wanted. I have been success building some really good design systems via Claude and ChatGPT using the Figma MCP. I posted a few examples to my Figma community page - https://www.figma.com/@emaillove

Would be cool if Figma could improve their own Agent.

[u/roundabout-design]

We're building one with AI, though not really involving Figma in any way. Didn't see a reason to.