Into Design Systems Favorites — Document Figma Variables & Events

Intodesignsystems
4 min readFeb 27, 2024

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Into Design Systems Favorites

Hey Design System Friend 👋🏻,

We hope this newsletter finds you well! We are thrilled to share with you our handpicked selection of the latest favorites from the ever-evolving Design Systems universe. 🪐✨

Happy learning & hope to see you at our next event! 🚀

Cheers,

Your Design System Friends

🔥 Document all your Figma variables with one click 🤖 — Print Variables Plugin by Mink

🔗 https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1310832673817237972/print-variables

Document Figma Variables Plugin

📼 Data Driven #DesignSystem Management 🎨⚒️ live with Varya Stepanova & Daniel Miebach

👉🏻 In this session our speakers Varya Stepanova & Daniel Miebach shared their experience and insights on leading the #Metro UI library project, highlighting the initial enthusiasm and subsequent challenges encountered while scaling the project within a large enterprise environment.

🚀They delved into the complexities of managing a project across an organization with over 150 software solutions and 90,000 colleagues 👀⚒️🔥 This talk was presented live 🟢 at Into Design Systems Conference 2023 — check out our upcoming virtual conference taking place May 15–17 2024 to learn hands-on ⚒️ the latest techniques in #DesignSystems

How we fixed Skyscanner’s broken colour palette 🎨⚒️ by Adam Wilson

🔗 https://medium.com/skyscanner-product-design/how-we-fixed-skyscanners-broken-colour-palette-ec25d19167dc

Skyscanner Color Combinations

🔥 Free #DesignTokens Starter Set | JSON, Variables & Tokens Studio sync by Philipp Jeroma

🔗 https://www.figma.com/community/file/1316042479653154791/design-tokens-starter-set-json-variables-tokens-studio-sync

Tokens Studio in Figma

🎨 Are you just starting with a #DesignSystem and the associated #DesignTokens and don’t know where to begin? 🚀 With this set, you have a starting point to guide you. Included in this set are:🔹 Predefined variables and variable groups (divided into global, alias, and an exemplary component set)🔗 Linked GitHub repo of the token set as a JSON file🚀 Get Started section with explanations of the token anatomy and short instructions on how to insert the JSON file into Tokens Studio and synchronize it with the variables and styles.

Upcoming Events 🎉

📐 Into Design Systems Career & Freelance tips online

🗓️ March 5th — 7:00 PM CEST live on Zoom

📐 Into Design Systems Online Conference 2024

🗓️ May 15–17 2024 live on Zoom

🎟️👉🏻 Get one of the limited tickets & join us: https://www.intodesignsystems.com/

Future-proof your career as a Design System expert 🚀

⚡️Learn the skills required to stay on top of the game — we’ll share the latest techniques at our conference — 🟢 live & hands-on 💪🏻

Into Design Systems 2024

🔥 Speaker preview:

Nathan Curtis — Design system consultant and Eightshapes founder

Nate Baldwin — Design Systems at Intuit

Romina Kavcic — Design Strategist — thedesignsystem.guide

Davy Fung — Design Systems at Meta

Jan Six — Tokens Studio

Samantha Gordashko — Design Systems Lead

Thais Santos — Design Systems at TomTom

Varya Stepanova — Design Systems Architect and Manager

Irina Illustrova — UI Engineer & Design Systems enthusiast

🟢 Live sessions preview

👋🏻📚 Let’s learn together!

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Thanks for reading & supporting us!

Happy Design System building 🛠️🎨

High fives 🙌🏼

Your Design System Friends

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