Into Design Systems Favorites — Live at Meta & Automate Design Tokens
Hey Design System Friend 👋🏻,
We are thrilled to share with you our handpicked selection of the latest favorites from the ever-evolving Design Systems universe. 🪐✨
Happy learning & hope to see you at our next event! 🚀
Cheers,
Your Design System Friends
Into Design Systems at Meta London
Hybrid Meetup by Into Design Systems streamed live from Meta in London
🔥 Speakers:
Design Systems: The WhatsApp Way
Christos Kastriti (he/him) — Product Designer WhatsApp
LeanDS: Tackling Design Systems with a Lean Approach
Marianne Ashton-Booth (She/Her/They/Them) — Head of Design Systems, ITVX
📼 Full recording & 🖼️ Miro Board: https://www.intodesignsystems.com/london-meetup
How to Create Data Tables in Figma : Best Practices and Figma File by Jordan Hughes
👉🏻 Create responsive data tables in Figma with Jordan Hughes’ guide and free Figma file. Learn Auto Layout best practices, how to create visual hierarchy, and how to create flexible and responsive tables the right way.
🔗 Article: https://www.untitledui.com/blog/create-tables-in-figma
🔗 Free Figma File: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1332203037536263387
Optimising your Design System with Figma’s variables by Nana Chon 🧙🏻♀️
📚 In this article you will learn:
🎨 5 design system principles
🛠 Anatomy of the Product
🔢 Primitive variables
🌈 Semantic variables
🔗 Article: https://uxdesign.cc/design-system-figma-variables-f3d9c4351bcc
Create “living” documentation of Design Tokens by Samantha Gordashko
👉🏻 What you need to know to feel confident creating and maintaining “living” documentation of Design Tokens using Tokens Studio and Automator.
🔗 Article: https://samiamdesigns.substack.com/p/part-1-create-living-documentation
📚 👋🏻 Want to learn hands-on with Samantha Gordashko ?
Join her upcoming session 👉🏻 How to name & automate Design Tokens at Into Design Systems Conference 🟢 May 15–17
In this workshop you will learn:
🔍 Explore different options on how to start and get guidance
⚙️ Set up automations
📁 Get all templates & Figma files
👉🏻🎟️ Get a ticket: https://www.intodesignsystems.com
Frame History — Figma Plugin
The fastest way to archive your work and look back at previous iterations. No more manual hassle — get rid of the copy/paste and duplicate pages process.
✅ Save copies of frames you’re working on, in a single click.
✅ Explore a visual chronological timeline of your saved frames.
✅ Navigate faster with a time saving version preview.
✅ Easily search and browse through saved frames.
🔗 Plugin: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/970748860959178062/frame-history
💪🏻 Creator: ColoRocket Team
😲 In less than 2 months we will kick off our big annual conference 🎉🚀
👋🏻 Join us to learn Design Systems together online! 🌎
🗓️ May 15–17 2024 — online worldwide
Some of our highly anticipated talks:
👉🏻 Nathan Curtis (Eightshapes) — Designing and Automating Component Specifications
👉🏻 Cintia Romero (Pinterest Gestalt) — Automating Design System conformance to elevate adoption
👉🏻 Marcelo Pavia (AEM Corporation) — Design Tokens Sets for Accessibility Needs
👉🏻 Nate Baldwin (Intuit) — Scalable Scales that Scale: Creating adaptive size and spatial systems for component options, viewport adaptability, and customer personalization
👉🏻 Jan Six & Mike Kamminga (Tokens Studio) — Static to dynamic: The shape of things to come
What to expect?
⚒️ 3 days full of hands-on talks
📚 Learn the latest Design Systems techniques
🖼️ Real Design System Examples
🧘🏼 Introvert friendly networking
🪞 Slides, resources, files & templates
🟢 Live & async Q&A
📼 All recordings included
🏆 Certificate of Attendance
👉🏻 🎟️ Get your ticket: https://www.intodesignsystems.com
Thanks for reading & hope to see you at one of our next events
Have an amazing day!
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