Opening up the data behind your design systems | Figma Blog

Figma introduced Design System Analytics to help organizations understand how their libraries and components are used across teams. The feature provides usage trends, library comparisons, and component-level data so design system teams can improve what they maintain, guide migrations, and measure adoption without monitoring individual designers. Customer examples show analytics turning usage data into practical design system decisions.

Improving Components Through Usage Data

• Teams can identify components that are widely used, rarely used, or frequently detached.
• Microsoft uses this information to determine which Fluent components need maintenance or may no longer be important.
• Google found that its button component was detached more than any other component, revealing that the master component was too complex.
• The Material Design team responded by creating a simpler button option while preserving flexibility for designers.

Tracking Library Adoption and Migration

• Design System Analytics compares usage trends between libraries over time.
• Squarespace planned to replace an older shared library with a new version using Auto Layout.
• Analytics helps the team:
  • Monitor adoption of the new library across teams
  • Identify which teams are using it
  • Ensure the old library is gradually deprecated
• Reports include component insertions, active teams, total instances, and detachments.

Understanding Component Usage Across Teams

• Analytics allows teams to examine how individual shared components are being used.
• Pluralsight planned to use the reports to understand how designers work with components from its design system.
• Because reports are available to anyone within an organization, designers and managers can independently investigate usage patterns and learn from other teams’ examples.

Measuring Design System Impact Earlier

• Figma positions analytics as a way to measure design system adoption earlier in the product development process, rather than waiting until implementation.
• The article introduces Bukalapak as an example of a company that had previously measured adoption during development, though the provided text ends before describing the full outcome.

Expanded Capabilities

• The original 2019 feature focused primarily on components and library usage.
• As of February 2025, Figma Library Analytics also includes styles and variables for Organization and Enterprise customers.
• Enterprise customers can access expanded functionality through the Library Analytics API.

Design System Analytics is intended to provide feedback for improving and evolving design systems, not to police individual designers. Teams can use the data to prioritize maintenance, simplify components, track migrations, and make adoption measurable.