Learn how to build design systems in Figma with an approach that combines main components and variants to substantially reduce maintenance efforts over time and scale your DesignOps!

✨ Duplicate my design to follow along: https://www.figma.com/file/vCGVX4tWvM...

Everyone talks about building design systems, but only a few share principles and practices related to maintaining those systems over time in the context of real product design. And that's the toughest part!

In this video, I share a brief history of how documenting components has evolved in Figma over the past year, and how you can leverage the best of what Figma has to offer today to craft a maintainable design system.

New to Figma? Start here!    • Designing with Figma – A Beginners' H...  
Deeper dive on components and variants:    • Components and Variants in Figma – De...  

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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Basic components
1:41 - Nested components
2:43 - Component variants
4:12 - Nested variants
6:52 - Layer management
9:55 - Making changes
11:33 - Conclusion