Rachel Andrew
The importance of people who care
Design systems and editorial style guides need people who care. They need people who care about the small details, who obsess over consistency. They…
Contents tagged “Design System”
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Alvin Leung, Taha Hossain, Shen Gao, Ben Giannis and Rafi Rizky
A new (or rather, old) approach to typography on the web
The strongest type systems are opinionated. They respond thoughtfully to the environment they inhabit, carrying a voice that cannot be captured by…
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Your design system is an idea. Every asset you build will require compromise of some kind. […] You have to think of your design system as a concept…
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How far we’ve come: What it would mean to lose the GOV.UK Design System
Although the team works on a thing used by thousands of other people, it’s the invisible systems work that has a bigger impact. Reviewing. Advising.…
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This is a call to action to create a Global Design System that provides the world’s web designers & developers a library of common UI components.…
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Shawn Cheris
Introducing Spectrum 2: Our vision for the future of Adobe experience design
Because Adobe has products that span platforms (including macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and web), we’ve had to think a lot about the right balance…
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Who would have thought linking to another Web page was so difficult… 🤷♂️
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Building a modern design system in layers
While there has been a lot written in the form of “Web Components vs. $FRAMEWORK”, you find that this is totally the wrong frame. There are a variety…
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Accessibility Beyond Code Compliance
Design systems (and pattern libraries within them) codify your organization’s design and coding guidelines in such a way that the software you produce…
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Shaun Bent and Tyce Clee
Can I get an Encore? Spotify’s Design System, Three Years On
To build the semantic token layers we mentioned in the previous lesson, we developed a color-theming algorithm that, given a few input values, can…
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A new barrier to communicating about design systems
the only thing more dangerous to a design system’s funding case than a lack of understanding of what it is, is a false understanding of what it is.…
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When we say "truncation is not a content strategy", it's true also for design tokens names!
I saw this is Shopify's Polaris Design System… 🤷♂️
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Layout & Grid in Design Systems
This interdisciplinary disconnect around grid’s mental model affects how teams execute grid. In a broken, unidirectional, “developer handoff” process,…
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Nate Baldwin
Nate Baldwin created an amazing resource about colors, with interactive examples that help understand many concepts. This website is for designers…
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Building a design system with Eleventy
Trys shows here some of the power of Eleventy, the best static site generator, to generate a Design System with components. Eleventy was the obvious…
Ben Callahan
Steve Messer
Brad Frost
Dion Almaer
Aaron Gustafson
Amy Hupe
Trys Mudford
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