Akademy Presentation on Design System Progress

Hi again!

If you would like to review my latest presentation at Akademy 2025 in Berlin on Design System progress, please check here:

In this presentation, I go over the progress we have made so far in building foundational elements of the design system we would like to apply to Plasma.

Progress is now moving into migrating or recreating more components using PenPot. PenPot 2.10 now contains variables, like Figma, and this should help us develop a robust set of variables inside PenPot to execute designs faster.

But first, we have to create all the possible states in variable tables. The result should be pretty good. Foundations are “done” in the sense that they are entered into PenPot. Now comes the second set of components to build and we start pretty small.

For example, buttons, button groups, checkboxes, progress bars, etc. Anything that is a small functional component in the UI. However, as PenPot is still working on their next generation rendering engine, we are still dealing with performance delays. Don’t expect this work in PenPot to move super fast until their new engine is out.