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Copy and paste components

This is real work, not a feature someone invented — it comes from real job ads and real questions people asked. Below are four ready AI prompts: get it done, make it easy for the next person to say yes to, work out the right move when you are stuck, and stop it coming back.

4prompts

The same task, four prompts

today's deadline · the next reviewer · the stuck moment · the pattern
AExecute — do the immediate taskCopy the header, footer, and a reusable card component from the marketing file into the product…+
Copy the header, footer, and a reusable card component from the marketing file into the product system and preserve auto-layout, component variants, and text styles. Update instances to use current color and spacing tokens and replace deprecated components before saving to the library. Confirm nothing breaks in three test screens: dashboard, settings, and billing.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
BImprove — make it easier to acceptBefore I paste these components into the system library, make it obvious what will cause…+
Before I paste these components into the system library, make it obvious what will cause regressions. Surface nested overrides, list local styles that differ from the library, flag instances where text styles will detach, and preview how variants map to existing components so reviewers can sign off fast.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
CDecide — diagnose the stuck momentI copied the marketing card into the product library and after pasting, variants collapsed and…+
Pasted components lost their variants and broke pages
I copied the marketing card into the product library and after pasting, variants collapsed and several pages show broken overrides. The PM will blame the design system for instability and engineers will need a hotfix. I don't know whether the paste detached components, renamed styles, or conflicted with existing tokens. What's most likely and what immediate repair will restore consistency with the least risk?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?
DBecome — change the patternTeams regularly paste new components into the shared library and create hidden style conflicts…+
We keep getting merge conflicts when teams paste components into the library
Teams regularly paste new components into the shared library and create hidden style conflicts and merge headaches. I'm accountable for the design system health and need a sustainable change. What practices, gating checks, and small automation or naming rules should I introduce so teams can add components without breaking the library?
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed. Helpful?

Questions people actually ask

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Every task here was seen in the real world. Someone doing the job named it, a real job ad asked for it, or a lot of people asked about it online.

If nothing real showed a task, it is not on the page. That is the whole rule.

They are the same job approached four ways, because what you need depends on where you are.

Get it done today. Make it easy for the next person to say yes to. Work out the right move when you are stuck. Learn the pattern so the job stops coming back.

For most of these jobs it can carry the heavy thinking - draft it, sort it, check it, rehearse it with you.

It cannot sit in your chair, take the blame when a number is wrong, or notice what nobody wrote down. Let it do the first 80%. Keep the last 20% that is truly yours.

No. Copy any prompt and paste it into the AI you already use. No account, no score, no wall in the way.

Any of them. The prompts describe the work rather than naming a product, so they are not tied to one assistant.

That is also why they keep working when you switch.

Change it freely. Every prompt is a starting line, not a rule.

Put in your real numbers, your real names and your real deadline. The more you make it yours, the better the answer comes back.

The tasks come from real job ads, published job data and the questions people ask in public forums.

The steps come from Figma's own documentation, with practitioner sources for the traps the manual does not mention.

Push once. Ask it to sharpen the weakest part and to say what it assumed.

Most wrong answers come from a missing detail rather than a bad prompt - tell it the thing it could not know.