Into Design Systems Weekly - Design Tokens Meetup, ROI of a Design System and more
Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystems🪐space:
⚡️Design Tokens - Virtual Meetup July, 19th
Virtual Design Tokens Roundtable Meetup - Free Entry
🗓July, 19th - 7PM CEST - LIVE on zoom
Agenda:
7:00 PM - 7:15 PM - Warm-up / Socializing
7:15 PM - 8:15 PM - The Future of Design Tokens + LIVE Q&A, James Nash - J.P. Morgan & Member of Design Tokens W3C Community Group
Please Note: This talk is a replay of James Nash speaking at The Future of Design Systems Conference - where we produced 22 recordings and 20h of Design Systems content - The recordings are on sale
8:15 PM - 9:30 PM - Design Tokens Rountable with our Design Tokens Experts:
Esther Cheran, Co-creator of Figma Tokens, Chief product @ start-up in stealth-mode
James Nash - J.P. Morgan & Member of Design Tokens W3C Community Group
⚡️How does this Roundtable work?
Open discussions, resources, Q&A, challenges, live demos, networking & more. There is no specific presentation. You can either enjoy your time and listen to the discussions or contribute via chat or cam/mic (zoom).
🙌 Sponsors:
Into Design Systems: Into Design Systems is a group of Design System Friends. Together we share knowledge, host events and create educational content dedicated to Design Systems, Design Tokens and Design Ops.
📚 Interesting Resources:
Guide #025: How to prepare your design system for external contributions — source.how For centralized design system teams, it is critical to create a contribution model so that external contributors can suggest ideas to be upstreamed to the official design system.
The ‘what’ and ‘why’ of Design Debt — uxdesign.cc Design debt is the sum of all the imperfections of the user experience and design processes that appear over time as a result of innovation, growth, and lack of design refactoring.
Figma plugin for a live content design system | Süddeutsche Zeitung Digitale Medien — medium.com Creating a custom Figma plugin to integrate live content into our designs has been the latest push towards a more automated and efficient mode of operation.
ROI of design systems. Is a Design System really worth it? — bootcamp.uxdesign.cc I came across a text I wrote some time ago that I forgot to publish on the topic of design systems and the ROI of using a design system on projects. In 2017 it became evident that “software is eating…
How to make your Figma components easier to use — uxdesign.cc Yet in 2022 design teams are growing and there are now more Design System designers. Combine this with the continued maturity and complexity of component libraries and you get the potential for a…
How to apply design tokens to your icons — medium.com A guide for design teams to combine design tokens and icons, and make handoff a breeze with Figma Tokens and Font Awesome
Reinventing Adobe Spectrum’s colors — adobe.design Our science-backed approach to updating a color system that supports over 100 products
Design token scales — chienchwu.medium.com When delivering a design system, design tokens ensure the style synchronization between design and development. A primary color in Figma is linked to color-primary in code. Same thing happens in text…
How to organize your Figma file. Insights to create a Figma file — uxdesign.cc A file template will help your team achieve a standardized way of structuring your designs in Figma. Collaborators and viewers of your file should be able to find what they need. In March of 2022, my…