📐Into Design Systems Weekly 💥 - Issue #8
Hey Design System Friend, here are my weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
Workshop: Building token-based Design Systems in Figma - Step by step guide — intodesignsystems.gumroad.com
Hands-on workshop with Jan Six, Creator of Figma Tokens Plugin
Learn how to create and apply #DesignTokens in Figma. With Figma Tokens you will be able to easily customize and maintain your #DesignSystem and create Themes (e.g Light & #DarkThemes) within minutes.
You will create tokens for choices that drive your design system's foundations and components.
👨🏻💻What you will learn:
👉🏻What are #DesignTokens?
👉🏻Intro to #FigmaTokens
👉🏻Tokens you can manage in Figma
👉🏻Naming Design Tokens
👉🏻How to create & apply tokens in Figma for Colors, Spacing, Border radii, Typography & Gradients
👉🏻How to create Light & Dark Themes
👉🏻How to tokenize components in Figma
👉🏻How to export Tokens for developers
👉🏻Jan’s personal tips & tricks
By using the plugin we'll be able to store the tokens on a single source of truth, enabling designers and developers to both access the same design tokens.
Scratching your own itch with Figma plugins - Jan Six — www.youtube.com #DesignSystem #Figma #DesignTokensScratching your own itch with Figma plugins - Jan Six live at Design Systems Hackathon Full workshop: https://intodesignsys...
Design Systems Automation: Need for Figma Tokens and Component Variants — uxplanet.org Design systems are everywhere. Finally, companies prioritize the need to have a design system, set up a dedicated design team to scale and manage design systems-ops and hire front-end developers who…
Managing Multi themed Design Systems with Dark Vader - Zero — www.youtube.com #DesignSystem #DesignTokensManaging Multi themed Design Systems with Dark Vader - Zero live at Design Systems Hackathon 👋🏻 Join our next Design Systems con...
Figma Community–Open Design Systems — richlam.medium.com Curated list of open design system UI kits on the Figma Community.. “Figma Community–Open Design Systems” is published by Rich Lam in Bootcamp.
Can AI help us to complete repetitive tasks (and make design fun again)? - Mike Kamminga — www.youtube.com #DesignSystem #DesignTokens #Figma👋🏻 Join our next Design Systems conference - 3 Days virtual event (May, 9-11 2022) with Speakers from Volkswagen, Deutsch...
Bridging The Gap Between Designers And Developers — www.smashingmagazine.com UXPin has recently launched a new feature called “Merge”. This tool aims to break through the chasms of design and development, all while improving the agility and quality our teams expect. This new technology may cause some rethink on how the whole design team and engineering team collaborates.
Why I love Style Dictionary, and why you should too — www.bekk.christmas Style Dictionary is one of the very best tools I've ever encountered. It's powerful, fun, and great for managing your design tokens!
Our tried-and-tested approach to Design Systems — medium.holographik.co For digital designers like us, design systems can be like the alphabet. They are a crucial part of every project and a solid ground to build any kind of digital product, website or even brand. At…