Into Design Systems Weekly 💥 - Issue #6
Hey there, here are my weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
How we Migrated to Figma — medium.com There are plenty of materials and resources available that are dedicated to Figma adoption in design organizations. However, this article will speak to how we have handled it in a matter of months at…
Recording: Building token-based Design Systems in Figma (Workshop) — intodesignsystems.gumroad.com
Access to recording: Hands-on workshop with Jan Six, Sr. Product Designer at GitHub
Duration: 3:20 hours
Hands-on workshop designing token-based design systems in Figma utilizing the plugin "Figma Tokens".
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.
10 Component Tips in Figma. Tips and best practices for components — dansapio.medium.com Tips and best practices for components in Figma. “10 Component Tips in Figma” is published by Danny Sapio.
Design-Pattern Guidelines: Study Guide — www.nngroup.com Unsure how to design and implement user-interface patterns? Use this collection of links to our content about specific patterns.
Stop thinking about flows, start thinking about objects — uxdesign.cc Task-based user flows are the golden standard of UX design. First, you examine the user’s goal. Next, you identify the tasks required to achieve them. Finally, you put those tasks into a logical…
Accessibility Myths — a11ymyths.com A small project debunking common accessibility myths.
Building Complex Figma Variants — 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…
Revisiting the anatomy of a design system — medium.com Over the years, a lot has evolved about what a design system is what it’s comprised of. An article from Brad Frost inspired me to revisit this earlier article from 2016 and update this idea with my…
Pages and Templates: the Other End of Atomic Design — designsystemcentral.com Almost anyone working with Design Systems knows about Atomic Design, but most often Atoms and Molecules get all the attention. Today we'll look at the other
Organising Design Systems - Template included — medium.com If you are a designer or engineer working on a scaling tech product, you must have found yourself blaming the other team for unclear specification, bad quality output or a general lack of…
6 questions to fail or succeed with Design Systems — www.linkedin.com I interviewed 10 designers to discover how would you and your team have success or not with your Design Systems. Some weeks ago, I started to investigate a possible movement in my Product Design career at Marktplaats, the biggest marketplace in the Netherlands (check our vacancies!).
Design tokens automation pipeline: From design tools to component libraries (Part 1) — alexbuenodesign.medium.com On September 23rd the first Editor’s draft of the Design Tokens specification was released, defining how the design decisions of your system in a platform-agnostic format can be built in order to…