Into Design Systems Weekly 💥 - Issue #4
Hey there, here are my weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
Building Mercari’s Design System. How we leveraged our lean team — medium.com Hi, I’m Michelle from the Product Design team at Mercari. My hope is that by showcasing our process in building our own design system, you may get some ideas or inspiration of your own. Let me start…
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Figma - How to Library | Best practices for Library editors — www.figma.com Best practices for Library editors. Do you work with a small team of designers who manage a big Library on which other teams depend on? Big responsibility! Does your team have a Library but sometimes have problems with unintended detaches or outdated components? In this file I've collected the ...
Figma Guide for Auto Layout & Constraints — blog.prototypr.io Creating components with automated sizing behavior saves a lot of time during the process. They also let us think more like a developer that has to implement the real application. That is why it is…
Figma: 9 Figma design system tips. A collection of handy tips to improve — 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…
Figma: Grouping Things. A quick look at the differences between groups, frames and components in Figma. — blog.prototypr.io It’s hard to imagine any project that doesn’t utilize some form of grouping objects together. Grouping helps you keep your files nice and tidy, and — even more importantly — allows for the creation…
Plugin: Figma - Icons Toolbox — www.figma.com For more plugins and gifs with usage examples: FigmaOP - open source Figma plugins-> Support My Work on Figma Plugins-> Set of tools to save you from redoing the same thing over and over again while designing or using your favorite icons. Tools: Save frame sizes and icons max-width pref...
Figma: One Mighty Table Cell. Creating complex tables with one component — blog.prototypr.io Designing enterprise software means dealing with lots and lots of tables, which is exactly what I have been doing for the past three years. After numerous semi-successful attempts to create that…
Building a Design System? Start with a Map — medium.com Building a system is not an easy task, but it is an enjoyable one. Discovering connections, creating new ones, improving the parts, and seeing the whole evolve in shape and purpose are some of the…
Using Algorithms to Meet Accessibility Requirements for Color Contrast — blog.twitch.tv My name is Ben Cole and I am a Front End Engineer on the Core UI design systems team. Our team creates the building blocks which designers and engineers use to make user interfaces for Twitch produ...
How product managers can work effectively with product designers — uxplanet.org Product designers and product managers are two different types of roles, but they have a lot in common. They both work hard to create a successful product for their company or client through rigorous…
Content Strategy showcase : 12 Design Systems that get it right — designsystemcentral.com Words are everywhere and a Content Strategy is a plan to make sure that the copy all teams write for their products fits the company's principles and values.