Team Libraries in Figma

The real breakthrough came when Sketch enabled nesting symbols inside of other symbols. Even as a single designer, there is tremendous value in properly defining, naming, and structuring symbols. Coincidentally, this is how developers structure components as well: starting at the bottom where they define things at a micro level, all the way up to e

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Component-based design systems produce inherent efficiencies for designers and developers, and solve the challenges associated with duplication and inconsistency in applying themes -- while driving the development of better quality, reusable components. Clients gain the benefit of better brand management resulting from a simplified content editor e... See more

Designers and developers are willing to collaborate but are facing key challenges:

• Their tools are not connected (Figma for designers | Microsoft Visual Studio and Github for developers)


• They don’t speak the same language


• Design tools produce images that developers have to translate into code


• It’s impossible to preserve a brand identity across all its

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The core insight of Figma is that design is larger than just designers. Design is all of the conversations between designers and PMs about what to build. It is the mocks and prototypes and the feedback on them. It is the handoff of specs and assets to engineers and how easy it is for them to implement them. Building for this entire process doesn’t ... See more

Figma has collaboration built in natively as a first party. This means the ability to comment on designs. But it means much more too. It means the ability to design together at the same time. To be able to send a live demo to someone frictionlessly and then be able to make live changes as you talk to them. It means being able to build design system... See more

To standardize design production, best-in-class organizations are now implementing a design system which is a library of design components (e.g. a button, a menu, a banner, a checkbox), design tokens (a color, an icon, a typo, etc.) as well as guidelines to use them.Specify is bringing design system management to the next level with a single design... See more