5 Free Figma UI Design Kits To Save You Time

As a UI / UX designer, a lot of your value lies in the unique solutions you can provide to a business and development problem, not redrawing buttons and drop downs over and over and over. (I discuss how to focus and improve on this value in my book). But thankfully Figma is LOADED with some amazing pre-built design systems and kits that you can use in your Design Career.

Even better? Many of them are completely free to use for your own projects and your clients.

Below I've listed 5 Free Figma UI Kits and Design Systems that will save you time.

What is a UI Kit or Design System?

A UI design kit (or UI kit) or Design System is a collection of pre-designed elements that designers can use to create their own user interface designs. This saves them time and effort, since they don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to build a new web or mobile application.

UI kits are usually created by companies who sell templates for websites, apps, and other software. They provide a variety of ready-made components such as buttons, icons, navigation bars, and more. These kits are often sold as part of a larger package that also includes additional features such as fonts, colors, and logos.

However, there are hundreds of UI kits available on the web, especially from the Figma Community. Some of them are free, some require payment, and some are paid. The good thing is that you don’t have to pay anything upfront. Instead, you can download the UI kit and start using it immediately.

You can use these kits to build beautiful interfaces without having to design from scratch. The only thing you'll need to do is customize the look and layout of the elements. There are also other benefits such as saving time and effort, and allow you to better focus on the difficult questions of the UI and UX, rather than building another set of headings and buttons.

5 Free Figma UI Kits / Design Systems

Moja UI - John Itebu

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1108679668074690379

This Figma UI Kit & Design System is very highly rated and already duplicated thousands of times for use by designers. Boasting an astounding number of components, variables, icons, & more, it's amazing to learn that it's free to use for your own projects.

As the creator describes it:
"Moja UI is a user-friendly and robust UI library and design system that will help you power up your designs. It is free and will remain so in perpetuity, regardless of what it grows into. Dev kit coming."

This Figma UI Kit & Design System includes:

• 8500+ Components & variants
• 1000+ function icons with size variants ready: 16px, 24px, 32px (adjusted down to stroke width)
• 258 flag icons with 2 size variants
• Popular brand logos (236) and icons (506)
• Responsive typography (adjust/reduce/expand to your taste)
• Slim & adequate set of color styles to get you going on your UI project fast.

Check it out here: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1108679668074690379

Free Design System | Ui Kit

https://www.figma.com/community/file/1067847732339602315

Another highly rated and many times duplicated project, the "Free Design System | UI Kit" by Elizderella has enough features and quality to make it hard to believe it's free.

The organization in this UI Kit is well laid out, enabling you to quickly navigate to components you need under Basic Components, Images, Data Display, Navigation, and more.

From the creator: "A complete design system with over 100 components. Starting from basic ones such as buttons, checkboxes to comments and cookie windows. The system is built on Auto Layout and Variants. Much attention is paid to adaptive tables and alignments in them."

Check it out here: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1067847732339602315

Nucleus UI iOS UI Kit

https://www.figma.com/community/file/967227093809940846

This UI Kit is for mobile design, and though this one does have a paid option the focus is on the Free version which contains an incredible amount of design components for use. With 348 Components and 36 screens, the Nucleus iOS UI Kit / Design System has been duplicated in Figma over 13,000 times and comes with rave reviews.

From the creator: "Create mobile app mockups or prototypes in Figma at speed. Nucleus is a free UI component library that provides you the building blocks you need to design your next mobile app."

The UI Kit / Design system includes:

• More than 300 components (+ variants)
• More than 50+ component categories (Buttons, Switches, Text fields, and many more)
• 36 screens for examples
• Built with style library, constraints, variants, and auto-layout
• 4pt grid
• Based on iOS Human Interface Guidelines (with some additional Google Material components )
• AA – WCAG

Check it out here: https://www.figma.com/community/file/967227093809940846

iOS 15 UI Kit for Figma

https://www.figma.com/community/file/984106517828363349

As Apple releases updated versions of iOS some components of this may fall out of favour, however even then it will serve as a great starting point to get your mobile design started. This UI Kit / Design System features a staggaring amount of components given the price tag, all carefully crafted by it's creator Joey Banks (his Twitter).

From the Creator: "I'm unbelievably excited to share this year's iOS 15 UI Kit on the Figma Community, where my goal was to include everything one might need to begin designing. Months of fun, nerdy, creating went into this and every component has been recreated and refactored to now work even better with Figma's Variants and updated Auto Layout features."

Check it out here: https://www.figma.com/community/file/984106517828363349

Lo-fi Wireframe Kit

https://www.figma.com/community/file/887892609124245416

And last but not least, something a little different. Specifically, a UI Kit / Design Kit with low fidelity components to assist with the ideation phase of your work. Sometimes it can be counterproductive to start with final visuals when you and your team are just putting the core concept. A kit like this can be incredibly helpful in providing low fidelity components that will help everyone focus on the flow and user experience rather than the final UI Design.

From the Creator: "A robust library of over 100 wireframing components that helps you explore more ideas, faster! Please enjoy this free library."

This UI Kit / Design Kit includes:

• Over 100 components including buttons, text fields, tabs, images, and multiple variations.
• Flexible components that work for both mobile and desktop.
• Easily customize colors and typography.
• Makes full use of Figma's design features like color styles, text styles, auto layout, constraints, and variants.
• Over 200 icons included in the library from Feather Icons.
• Markup components are included to add stickies, annotations, and flow chart lines.

Check it out here: https://www.figma.com/community/file/887892609124245416

Amazing Resources to Start Your UI Design or UX Design

Besides the ones listed here, there are thousands of available Figma resources for you to leverage during your Design Career (and many more than just UI Kits and Design Systems!).

Using these types of kits is a great way to reduce the initial burdens of a designer and focus on how to provide the most value to the business and your team.

Cheers to your great UI / UX Design Career!