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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 generate an entire color theme with guaranteed accessible color contrast.
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. Particularly when that false understanding is often built on a collection of common myths that have elbowed their way, without nuance, into the psyche of our organisations’ leaders.
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… 🤷♂️
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, design comps are treated as sacrosanct, and developers see that 12-column semi-transparent pink guideline as a hard requirement that must implemented exactly as articulated by the static design tool. This is how a “how to do a 12-column grid in HTML/CSS?” Google search ultimately led to massive success for tools like Bootstrap. Despite the introduction of many new CSS technologies and layout techniques over many years, this antiquated 12-column mental model still dominates a lot of conversations around layout and grid.
Nate Baldwin created an amazing resource about colors, with interactive examples that help understand many concepts.
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.
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Shaun Bent
Tyce Clee
Amy Hupe
Brad Frost
Nate Baldwin
Trys Mudford