Into Design Systems Weekly — Dark Mode with Design Tokens
Hey Design System Friend, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystems🪐space:
How to implement dark mode with as little effort as possible on the web, iOS and Android — uxdesign.cc
Learn how to implement dark mode from triggering it, to setting up design tokens to get automatic dark mode for all components.
The genome color tool. A universal color tool for design systems — uxdesign.cc
White-labeling Design Systems for multiple brands with WCAG Color Contrast is a tedious and manual task. Despite many Color Tools available, nothing quite seems to fit the bill. This article…
How I use Figma Branching in my design process — medium.com
Design files are messy and it’s pretty common for designers to go through multiple design discoveries and iterations during the process; changes could vary from colors to font sizes to small details…
Facelift, Refresh, Redesign — strategies for paying off Design Debt — uxdesign.cc
This article is a part of the ‘Design debt 101’ series. It references information from The ‘What’ and ‘Why’ of Design Debt, Measuring Design Debt and Paying off Design Debt. Please, consider reading…
Design system interviews — Formaat — formaat.design
With more than a decade of experience each, we explore how design systems will work tomorrow
Why is it so hard to gain the DesignOps maturity? — uxdesign.cc
DesignOps is a continuous topic in the industry. It occurs to us despite the stage of a design team. That is, as long as the team exist, it will be discussed. Over the past 2 years at the Trend Micro…
Design Systems For Figma | Scaling A System — www.designsystemsforfigma.com
Liv Tytherleigh, a Senior Product Designer at Meta talks about expanding a design system to support a range of different use cases.
Design Systems:
Astro: Space UX Design System — www.astrouxds.com
The Astro Space UX Design System enables developers and designers to build rich space app experiences and custom applications with established interaction patterns and best practices. Using Astro to design your apps will help ensure that the Space Force Guardians managing our space assets are using the most modern and consistent tools available.
Components UI Kit | Figma Community — www.figma.com
Our collection of reusable components, guided by clear and consistent standards, can be assembled in countless variations.
Design System Videos:
Behind the System: Building an automated multi-brand token workflow — www.youtube.com
Recording of the first Figma Tokens livestream on the 25th of August 2022. Behind the Systems: Building an automated multi-brand token workflow by Chris Kerr…
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We hope you find these resources useful and that they help to inspire your own work in the Design Systems space.
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