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Relinky: Streamlining Design System Workflow
Relinky is a Figma plugin that automates the detection and management of unlinked design tokens and variables, significantly reducing design debt and improving team efficiency.
A powerful Figma plugin that helps you detect and fix unlinked colors, text styles, and design tokens across your design files.
Internal Challenges
Unlinked values during explorations
Many unlinked values during explorations stage
Duplicating designs from different projects
Duplicating designs from different projects have unlinked values
External Challenges
Design variables inconsistencies
- Inconsistent use of design tokens across files and teams
- Time-consuming manual changes of multiple design screens
Design to Development handover
- Variables in hanoff screen might come from different libraries
- Nested values within screens might be missed out
Relinky's Features
Scan for missing values with simple select and replace features
Color Detection
Identifies unlinked color values and strokes across design files
Typography Check
Scans for typography inconsistencies and unlinked text styles
Spacing Analysis
Detects spacing, radius and gap values
Scan for unlinked fill / Stroke Colors
Scan and replace unlinked fonts
Scan and replace unlinked radius / spacing
Replacement features
Created a simple select all or select individual feature to allow quick variable replacement
Show or hide results to streamline workflow
In some cases, designers might not want to make a change to hidden layers, this feature allows them to hide the results to streamline their workflow.
Impact on Design Workflow
Time Efficiency
180% reduction in time spent on projects that has old designs files with many unlinked values
Improved Collaboration
Reduced developers and designers realignemnt time by 70%
Design Consistency
Have a consistent design system across the entire project files
Relinky's Repository
Source code on GitHub! Consider contributing to the plugin!
A powerful Figma plugin to help you find and manage unlinked design tokens and styles across your files.
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