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Figma

Every guide tagged figma, sorted by most recent.

Figma Make vs Lovable vs v0 vs Bolt vs Replit (AI UI Builders Compared)

Five AI tools generate UI from a prompt. They are not interchangeable. Here is what each one is actually good at, what it ships, and when to pick which.

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How to Describe Design Styles to AI

Turn vague style words like retro, premium, or playful into precise art direction that AI can actually use.

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Audit a Design System in 30 Minutes

A step-by-step workflow to audit any design system using AI tools. Check token naming, component health, accessibility, and visual consistency in one session.

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Design Token Naming: 7 Systems Compared

How Polaris, Carbon, Primer, Material Design, Lightning, Spectrum, and Fluent name their tokens. Side-by-side comparison with patterns, examples, and what to steal for your system.

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Understand MCP in 10 Minutes (and Why It Changes Your AI Setup)

The one protocol that lets AI read your Figma, GitHub, and docs directly. A plain-English explainer for designers, with examples of what it unlocks in real work.

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Connect Your Figma Designs to Claude and Cursor

Stop copy-pasting screenshots into AI. Set up Figma Dev Mode MCP so Claude and Cursor can read your designs directly, then ship code that actually matches your file.

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Audit 500 Components in 10 Minutes

A complete workflow for auditing your entire Figma component library using Tidy and Claude. Identifies naming issues, missing descriptions, and inconsistencies.

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How to Prompt Claude to Audit a Figma Design

A 5-version walkthrough showing how a bare prompt becomes a production-ready design audit. Built on the same iterative method Anthropic teaches internally.

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Build a Token Parity Check Skill for Claude Code

A Claude Code skill that compares your tokens between Figma and code. Catches drift before it ships, with one slash command.

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Convert Figma Variables to CSS Custom Properties

Export Figma variables and transform them into production-ready CSS custom properties your engineers can use immediately.

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Pull Component Data from the Figma API

Programmatically access your Figma components, styles, and variables. Build audits, reports, and automations on real data.

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Sync Tokens Studio to GitHub

Version-control your design decisions. Every token change tracked, every update synced between Figma and code.

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Figma to Code with MCP

End-to-end workflow for converting Figma designs to production code using MCP servers. From design to implementation in minutes, not hours.

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