Into Design Systems Weekly💥 - Issue #2
Hey there, here are my weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem space:
📼 Workshop: Building token-based Design Systems in Figma - Black Firday Sale — intodesignsystems.gumroad.com
Access to Recording: Hands-on workshop with Jan Six, Sr. Product Designer at GitHub
Duration: 3:20 hours
What you will create during this workshop: We'll create tokens for spacing, border radii, typography and color choices that drive our design system's foundations and components. By using the plugin we'll be able to store our tokens on a single source of truth, enabling designers and developers to both access the same design tokens.
FigmaOP - Open source Figma Plugins — figmaop.netlify.app FigmaOP-open source Figma plugin: to help designers and developers work faste, smarter and intentionally
Adaptive, accessible and automated colour for Design Systems by Lucas Zhang — medium.com The creation of our Design System’s colour palette was like many others; we began by auditing and then standardising a set of functional colours by how they were used generally, while assuming we…
Design Systems Hackathon - Online - Free Entry — www.dshackathon.de Let's meet to learn, hack and build plugins & tools for Design Systems.
How to create large component sets in Figma by Sepeda Rafael — uxdesign.cc Creating and maintaining design systems is an incredibly interesting work. It allows you to combine and develop both the skills of a designer and an engineer. It is also an opportunity to be a…
9 Figma design system tips by Marc Andrew — uxdesign.cc With this article, I’ve listed a few quick and easy methods to help you speed up your design workflow in Figma. Most of these suggestions are ideal for when you’re dealing with design systems or huge…
Creating a Table variant for our UI Kit in Figma (Case Study) by Carol Chan — medium.com Our team has been working through a list of Jira tickets to convert some components into variants and, admittedly, we left the hardest ones for last. A particularly challenging set are our ❖DataTable…
Building Complex Figma Variants by Carol Chan — medium.com When I started tackling variants with many properties, I realized that things can get exponentially more complex. With the help of my team, I was able to narrow down the scope of the component I was…