Storybook is an open-source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue, and Angular. This article explores some of the Storybook addons for design. The Figma addon depicts the component design next to the implementation. Design changes will automatically be reflected in Storybook.

This feature is only available for teams on enterprise-level Figma Organization plan, but thinking behind it is fascinating. Design System Analytics shows how the system and individual components are used across the team, and highlights if some of them are too rigid and get detached often.

Smart Text helps with building automatic documentation and style guides. Create custom text expressions with special tokens for layer’s properties like size, colors, fonts, etc. Then run a plugin to update these tokens with up-to-date data from the layers. Check out the demo video in the author’s Twitter.