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How a small team built Figma.com’s design system
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The Figma Growth team created a design system to scale out the Figma marketing site. Get the starter file for your design system
Figma is a collaborative interface design tool that gives individuals and teams a better way to design, but when we did an audit of our marketing pages, we discovered we weren’t heeding our own advice. Our site had a lot of inconsistencies. We counted over a dozen different heading sizes, buttons with varying size and color, and even more frustrating than that, every time we wanted to create a new page, we were basically starting from scratch. Our approach was not the modern way of building websites and we needed to come up with a better solution. A lack of consistency As we began to dissect t
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