Overview
Do you use software to manage Design Systems?
This software helps maintain guidelines for interactions, visual styles, and general usage of design elements. We anticipate disruption in this category in the future.
Do you use software to manage Design Systems?
67% of respondents are involved in managing design systems.
Which software do you primarily use for managing Design Systems?
Thanks to Figma's focus in this area (variables and tokens) most respondents stay within the tool to manage their design systems.
Highests ratings for tools with a large number of responses.
| Figma | 
|
4.3 | (1531) |
| Adobe XD |
|
4.12 | (111) |
These tools didn't gather enough responses to meet our ratings criteria but are still worth checking out.
| Notion |
|
4.36 | (33) |
| Supernova |
|
4.24 | (21) |
| Lunacy |
|
4.38 | (13) |
| Abstract |
|
4.08 | (12) |
Are you using AI within any of the tools you selected for managing design systems?
Some respondents are using generative AI to help write descriptions for patterns and components.
One respondent mentioned using AI to ideate of different types of organizational systems for their component structure.
Segmented by number of employees in the respondents' company
53% of designers working on their own (company size of 1) are managing a design system—perhaps for clients or their own projects.
Most of these tools seem to skew toward larger team sizes who need to extra rigor to maintain their design systems.