Oct 23 2024 5 mins
Briefing Doc: Figma Design Kit for UI Components
Date: October 22, 2024
Source: Product Update Announcement
Theme: Empowering developers and designers to build and plan custom card designs using a Figma Design Kit.
Key Highlights:
- Purpose: The Figma Design Kit provides a visual representation of UI components used in React-based custom cards, serving as a single source of truth for design.
- Target Audience: Developers and designers creating custom cards. Initially, access will be granted to a limited set of developers for preview and validation.
- Availability: Sales Enterprise and Service Enterprise plans.
- Benefits:Facilitates design planning for custom cards.
- Enhances communication with stakeholders about UI Extensibility possibilities.
- Enables creation of demos and proposals prior to development.
- Provides a library of all current UI components, variants, and visual states.
- Clarifies customizable aspects of UI components.
- Functionality: Users can copy components from the Figma library and modify them as needed.
- Important Note: The original Figma Design Kit should be used as the source of truth for updates.
Quotes:
- "This new Figma Design Kit is a visual source of truth for the UI components in React-based custom cards."
- "Now, teams can create mocks and brainstorm designs with their customers even before development begins."
- "Note: To get the latest updates please use the original Figma Design Kit as the source of truth."
Action Items:
- Review the Figma Design Kit and provide feedback during the preview phase.
- Utilize the kit to create demos, proposals, and mockups for custom card designs.
- Stay updated with the latest changes and additions to the kit.