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.