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Figma Just Made Your Design System Debt Everyone's Problem. Now Use It
Figma's 2026 releases—AI agents, Code Connect, Make, and Check designs—all depend on a team's design system, so a broken system now fails visibly across stakeholders, developers, and marketers instead of staying hidden with one maintainer. Check designs adds a hard number counting inconsistencies, turning "our design system has drift" from a deniable claim into concrete evidence, though the tool flags intentional exceptions as false positives. Visibility alone doesn't grant authority over roadmap decisions, so design leads should present system health as a delivery risk underlying new AI features.
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