7 Figma Best Practices for a Figma to HubSpot CMS Conversion

You’ve seen the power of AI. You know that tools like transjt.ai can take your beautiful Figma design and convert it into a fully functional, production-ready HubSpot theme in minutes.

But there’s a critical rule in all automation: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

An AI is incredibly powerful, but it's not a mind reader. It interprets your design based on the structure you provide. A messy, disorganized Figma file will lead to a messy, disorganized HubSpot theme. But a clean, well-structured file? That’s where the magic happens.

By following these seven best practices, you can ensure your Figma to HubSpot CMS conversion is flawless every time, effectively making you a "full-stack designer" who can build 90% of a website.

1. Master Auto-Layout (Seriously)

This is the most important rule. If you are still manually positioning elements and using group layers for spacing, you are creating ambiguity. transjt.ai uses your Auto-Layout settings (direction, padding, spacing between items) to write clean, responsive flexbox CSS.

Do: Use Auto-Layout for everything: buttons, cards, navigation bars, and entire page sections.
Do: Pay close attention to your Figma Auto Layout configuration (padding, spacing, and constraints).
Don't: Manually drag text layers or icons into position. The AI won't know how to interpret this, leading to broken layouts.

2. Name Your Layers Logically

Don't be the designer with 500 layers named "Frame 128" or "Rectangle 43 copy." The AI uses your layer names to understand semantic structure. A layer named "Header Section" or "Footer" will be treated differently than one named "Group 81." This also makes the generated code and HubSpot modules infinitely cleaner for a developer to "polish" later.

3. Use Components and Variants

Are you creating three different buttons that are just different colors? You should be using a single Button Component with three Variants. transjt.ai is smart enough to understand this. It will recognize component-based design and generate cleaner, more reusable CSS classes, just like a senior developer would. This keeps your final code light and efficient.

4. Define and Use Text & Color Styles

Don't just pick a color from the color wheel or a font from the dropdown. Define your styles (e.g., Heading 1, Body Text, Brand-Primary). When the AI sees you've applied a "Heading 1" text style, it will generate a clean <h1> tag with the correct CSS. This ensures your site has perfect semantic HTML (great for SEO) and a consistent, scalable design system.

5. Build with a Clear Page Structure

A well-organized Figma file looks like a well-organized website. Use main frames for your pages and structure them with nested frames for each major section (e.g., "Hero Section," "Testimonials Section," "CTA Section"). This logical hierarchy makes it easy for the AI to understand the document flow and generate clean, section-based code.

6. Design for Responsiveness First

Don't just design a 1440px desktop layout and hope for the best. Create mobile, tablet, and desktop frames for your key pages. By setting your Auto-Layout constraints (e.g., "Fill Container" vs. "Hug Contents"), you are visually programming the responsive behavior. The AI will read these constraints and generate the media queries to match.

7. Keep It Simple & Realistic

AI is powerful, but it’s not magic. Avoid overly complex, non-standard design features like unusual vector masks or third-party plugin effects that have no real-world CSS equivalent. Stick to building with components, auto-layout, and styles—the core building blocks of all modern web design.

By following these steps, you’re not just making a "pretty picture." You’re building a precise, logical blueprint that an AI can read and execute perfectly. This is how you stop being just a designer and become the architect of the final product, getting your project 90% of the way to the finish line before a developer ever writes a single line of code.