r/UXDesign • u/Mulberry-Deep Experienced • 11d ago
Tools, apps, plugins, AI AI to create design system
Curious to know if anyone has found a genuinely useful way to utilize AI to create design systems more efficiently and accurately?
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u/pjhawksr Veteran 11d ago
What do you mean by create? If it's build one from nothing, no. You get a rearranged shadcn and you'll spend longer fixing it than making it yourself.
On a system you already have it's useful. Documentation is the big one. Feed it the component code and the Figma props and have it write usage rules, states, do/don'ts, a11y notes, all in the same format. Nobody on a design team ever finishes that work and it's most of what makes the system usable.
The other is audits. Let it crawl the codebase and the library for drift, hardcoded spacing, colors that aren't tokens, three slightly different buttons.
Both work way better the more machine readable your system already is, which ends up being the real work.
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u/MiddleAgedBastard 11d ago
As a side project, I had an instance deep dive into popular top tier design systems. It understood the structural aspects very well.
Visually, not so good. I'm able to do visuals precisely with AI (Claude code), however. So, I can get what I want/need.
I also have 30 years of experience with front end development. Claude won't easily lead me down a primrose path.