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Joan5
Joan5
New Participant
Feb 21, 2026 6:32 PM UTC
Question

Use figma make to make components for a design system that can be imported as components into figma

why can’t figma make make components that we can import back into figma. It would be useful to us make to generate a design system, using prompting and be able to import thes eback into figma as components.

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ScottDaniels
ScottDaniels
Active Member
Sep 3, 2026 5:49 PM UTC

I am befuddled as well that you cannot do this. Asking Figma Make to take components in bulk, optimize and standardize for a better library would be truly valuable!

Sarah Shelley
Sarah Shelley
New Participant
Oct 8, 2026 11:57 PM UTC

Relay might help here: it reads the Make project and turns repeated parts into real Figma components, with variants and text properties, and saves theme colours as variables. It runs on your computer with no AI. Free to try. (I'm the maker.)

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1689869264291769693

 

 

    ScottDaniels
    ScottDaniels
    Active Member
    Nov 3, 2026 3:35 PM UTC

    Thats a great tool, but not having those newly created components linked back to existing components in a design system is whats broken for me in Figma. That and that my enterprise (Like most enterprises) avoid the use of community or commercial plugins. I know, boo.

      Sarah Shelley
      Sarah Shelley
      New Participant
      Nov 3, 2026 7:48 PM UTC

      Thanks Scott, that's really useful, and I agree it's the missing piece. Make building its own copy of a Button when your library already has one isn't much use to a team with a design system.

      Linking to existing components is the next thing I'm looking at for Relay: when it rebuilds a Make project, it would use the matching component from your library (with your variables) instead of creating a new one. Can I ask how you'd expect the matching to work? By component name, by variant properties, or something like Code Connect mappings?

      On the enterprise side, completely understand. In case it helps with an approval request: Relay has no network access at all (it's set to "none" in the manifest), uses no AI, and nothing leaves your machine. Enterprise admins can approve individual plugins, so it might be worth a conversation with whoever manages yours.

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