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Create a Production-Ready Design System Using Claude and Codex

Use a hybrid AI workflow to bridge design and development. Generate high-level design concepts and tokens with Claude, then use Codex for robust implementation of the technical components in your codebase.

Create a Production-Ready Design System Using Claude and Codex

Before you start

Tools used

Step by step

The workflow

Follow the sequence once, then adapt the prompts, checks, and handoffs to your own setup.

5 steps

Step01

Generate Concepts with Claude

Provide a Figma file or an example website to Claude Design and ask it to create a design system. It will output a clean design.md file with design tokens.

Claude Design excels at high-level conceptual work, creating well-structured design tokens for colors, fonts, and spacing.

Step02

Hand Off to Codex

Take the design.md file generated by Claude and feed it to a more implementation-focused agent like Codex.

Step03

Prompt for Implementation

Use a specific prompt to instruct Codex to take the conceptual tokens and build out the actual shared components and technical design system in your codebase.

Example prompt
Take this design.md, plus what's in the Figma, and actually build me a technical design system.
Step04

Build Components

Let Codex build out the file structure and create the interconnected components based on the design file.

Step05

(Optional) Sync Back to Figma

Using a Figma plugin with Codex, sync the final, coded design tokens back into your Figma file to close the loop between design and development.

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