Design to Code Using a Custom Design System with AI

A design system is a collection of reusable components, patterns, and guidelines that help teams build consistent, high-quality UI efficiently.

Blade is a design system developed at Razorpay to ensure a consistent look and feel across all products, featuring over 65 reusable components and patterns.

While AI can rapidly generate UI code, it cannot replace the consistency, reusability, and accessibility provided by a design system like Blade.

AI can work with design systems like Blade to quickly generate UI code, enhancing productivity by combining the strengths of both AI and design systems.

Blade's MCP (Model Context Protocol) server connects AI models to different data sources and tools, facilitating tasks like converting Figma designs to code.

Blade uses its AI server to interact with Figma and OpenAI, gathering design context and generating UI code based on Figma designs.

Blade provides various tools such as get-blade-component-docs for documentation and get-figma-to-code for converting Figma designs to code.

High-quality documentation is crucial as it helps AI understand how to effectively utilize design system components, improving the accuracy of generated code.

Challenges included transitioning from a Figma plugin to an MCP, measuring generation accuracy, and integrating with other coding tools.

The key takeaway is to maintain concise, accurate documentation, embrace learning, automate mundane tasks, and collaborate with smart, passionate individuals.