Back to School with Amy Hupe & Geri Reid: Figma UI Kits

March 20, 2024

Recess is over! Amy Hupe and Geri Reid are back in the classroom with the next episode of Back to School. This time they talked all about Figma UI kits!

Are you a real design system without a Figma UI kit? Does it need to be a pixel-perfect copy of your code? What’s the source of truth? More pressingly, can a Figma library BE your design system? 
Amy and Geri go back to school for a Figma field trip.

Design system consultants Amy Hupe and Geri Reid are going back to design systems school.

In this series, Amy and Geri put aside their vocal and opinionated assumptions to dive deep on design systems topics; from Figma libraries to design tokens to deciding if AI can really write decent documentation. Climb aboard the school bus for a field trip on the history, the conversations and the foundations that really make a design system great.

It’s time to crack open the textbooks and head back to freshers week…

About the hosts

Amy Hupe

she/her; Design systems & content design consultant

Amy is a UK based design systems and content design consultant. Over the past 7 years, she’s worked on design systems for some of the biggest names around, including GOV.UK, BT, Springer Nature and Babylon Health. Whether she’s leading systems work or designing content, Amy works to champion simplicity and inclusion in the face of increasing complexity.

Geri Reid

she/her; Design systems & accessibility consultant

Geri is a design systems consultant from London. Previously, the design and accessibility lead on the NewsKit Design System, she has helped some of the UK’s largest newspaper and broadcast brands to design at scale. She also led design on design systems at Lloyds Banking Group and Checkout.com, and she is a keen accessibility advocate, amateur writer, and documentation nerd.