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Maintaining a design system in Figma

Lukas Oppermann
UX Collective
Published in
15 min readApr 25, 2024

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Design systems evolve over time and so do the platforms they are built on. As maintainers, we need to make sure to keep them up to date. This includes Figma and your Figma design system library. Figma has only a basic versioning, so we need to be careful with changes. But there are some techniques to make sure we don’t release updates that break consumers Figma projects.

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Product designer with a love for complex problems & data. Everything I post on Medium is a copy — the originals are on my own website: https://www.vea.re