Into Design Systems Favourites — Plugins & DS strategy
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
Figma Calendar Dates Generator ⚒️ by masha sh
Fill out your own, custom calendar component with real dates!
🔗 https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1329228807242129260
Figma Plugin: Table Creator 🎨⚒️ by Gavin McFarland
🔗 https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/885838970710285271
Create custom-styled tables which can be easily resized, edited and automatically adjust to content. Control the design of your tables by modifying the components. Update all tables, anytime your design changes. Use the plugin commands to make selecting columns and rows easier.
How to build a Design System strategy, not a roadmap 🎨⚒️ by Rafael Sepeda Errera
🔗 https://uxdesign.cc/crafting-an-effective-design-system-strategy-2d32789cf7ce
What you will learn in this article:
🎨 Design System Purpose: Highlights the role of design systems in ensuring consistency and reducing development time.
🔍 Uniqueness versus Replication: Discusses the choice between creating a unique design system or adapting existing ones.
🚀 Strategic Development: Stresses the importance of a strategic approach in developing a design system from scratch.
🤝 Discovery Process: Emphasizes understanding user and business needs through comprehensive research and interviews.
Creating a color ramp using color modifiers in Tokens Studio 🛠️🎨 by Katie Cooper
🔗 https://uxdesign.cc/create-a-color-ramp-using-color-modifiers-in-tokens-studio-8222cf735242
🎨 Figma File: https://www.figma.com/community/file/1327360101291322734
Using modifiers to create color ramps can significantly reduce the tedious work associated with creating color ramps. This approach is fantastic for maintaining consistency across colors.
Events 🎉
Into Design Systems at Meta London & Online
We’re going LIVE for an unmissable meetup! Join us in-person at Meta Kingscross or Live on Zoom 🦄🌍
🗓️ March 19th — 6:30 PM GMT live on Zoom
Talks:
⚡️ Design Systems: The WhatsApp Way
🎨 Christos Kastritis, Product Designer, WhatsApp
This talk will shed light on how WhatsApp’s design system, despite its relative youth, has been instrumental in enabling ambitious initiatives that affect 2+ billion users. Discover how end-user needs allowed us to tackle long-desired holistic problems, and how you could elevate the impact of design systems beyond traditional norms. We’ll also share some hard-earned lessons along the way.
⚡️ LeanDS: Tackling Design Systems with a Lean Approach
Marianne Ashton-Booth, Head of Design Systems, ITVX
How can we integrate LeanUX principles with research to craft adaptive design systems. A research and strategy framework to help guide frequent system evaluations and refinements, ensuring your design system stays user-focused and effective and you have the right mechanisms in place to respond to business needs.
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