Personally, I’d really like to automate part of the workflow around exporting from Figma and assembling a design system into components — right now there’s just too much manual work involved.

  figma-use variable create "brand/primary" --collection <id> --type COLOR --value "#3B82F6"

  figma-use render ./Button.figma.tsx

  const colors = defineVars({
    primary: { name: 'brand/primary', value: '#3B82F6' },
  })

  export default () => (
    <Frame style={{ backgroundColor: colors.primary }}>
      <Text style={{ color: '#FFF' }}>Button</Text>
    </Frame>
  )

Basically, to really leverage this I think just knowing Figma perfectly previously or being a noobie and knowing Claude Code perfectly isn't gonna cut it.

Building things is fast, but building something that is gonna stick is gonna be more difficult now you have so many options.

The game has changed.

I am somewhat fearful of having created a monster, but at the same time I think it’s good to knock down barriers to knowledge and learning. All else equal, I think a designer or PM with some exposure to code is better than one without.

What I’m fearful of are 10k line PRs and pressure from product to “just ship it.” Past a certain threshold a PR will be really tough to review, to the point that it would be preferable for an engineer to have handled it from the start.

I think we will need deeper integration between figma and the codebase/storybook. Shared color palette definitions, integration of storybook components with figma components, stuff like that.

The Figma MCP that you can use to handover to your agent and simply say “implement this” is already pretty impressive.

Atomic component system, good page level template coverage, great prop support.

The LLM consumer nor the designer is allowed to write directly back to the library. Those changes need to go through a governance process to prevent drift as their are multiple product teams consuming it and we still don't have a reliable way to make sure Figma and the component library are always 1:1. Maybe in a company of a single designer.

So while this setup is arguably more fleshed out than what you have it still requires multiple humans in the loop.

Sure, there are a billion Medium articles about how it can be done with tokens but its much messier at any kind of scale.