Design systems break not because designers don’t care but because maintaining consistency at scale is genuinely hard. Tokens drift, naming becomes messy, documentation gets outdated, and what started as a neat system slowly turns into a fragile one. But AI can help you keep your design system up to date.
One of my favorite coding tools, Claude, can act as a design systems assistant for another my favorite design tool, Figma, helping with the unglamorous work: create ready-to-use token structures, extracting styles, auditing variables, fixing inconsistencies, and even documenting how the system should be used.
In this article, I’ll show 4 practical workflows where combining Figma & Claude becomes a powerful accelerator for design system work.
1. Generate tokens formatted for Figma Variables
When to use: Early in the design process, when you need a robust foundation for style variables on which you can build a consistent, scalable UI.
Claude can help you generate an entire collection of tokens for your design system, including colors, typography, spacing, corner radius, etc. The great thing is that Claude optimizes the output for Figma formatting, so you can paste the output directly into your system.
