Design System Sync
Summary
My company, Design System Sync, is developing a Figma plugin to help design teams and product designers efficiently reuse and maintain design systems across multiple projects with seamless variable updates for colors and spacings.
Problem statement
Customers struggle with maintaining consistent design systems across multiple Figma projects and updating design variables globally, which causes time-consuming manual work and inconsistent visual branding.
Solution
A Figma plugin that enables designers to create reusable design system templates with customizable variables for colors, spacing, and other design tokens. Users can apply these templates across multiple projects and instantly update all instances by modifying the central variables, ensuring design consistency while allowing for project-specific customization.
Growth metric
The key metric to focus on is monthly active plugin installations. To scale this metric to affect 1 million people, the company should build integrations with popular design tool ecosystems beyond Figma (like Sketch, Adobe XD, and Framer) and establish partnerships with major design system providers and enterprise software companies to bundle the plugin as part of their design workflows.