Into Design Systems Weekly — Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens
Hey Design System Friend, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystems🪐space:
Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens — solomon.io
How to improve accessibility with design tokens. By using tokens to enable theming, we can begin to build themes for our colorblind customers.
A beginner’s guide to Design Tokens — uxdesign.cc
Here you’ll learn the basics of what design tokens are, how they’re used, their benefits, and some tools and resources that can help. But first, let’s start with a quick story. You’re a product…
An Introduction to Constraint Based Design Systems — www.colepeters.dev
Effective designs optimize for constraints. These constraints are not just useful, they are critical: a beautiful building not designed for the constraints of tectonic movement and climate variability will collapse, and products not designed for the myriad constraints of the web will never amass a critical user base.
What do design system product managers do? — www.knapsack.cloud
Maya Hampton, Product Manager of REI’s design system Cedar, wrote a follow-up to her episode of the Design Systems Podcast. Read on to discover what the product manager of a leading design system does and how she makes an impact.
Spacing solved — blog.damato.design
I’ve been on a journey to understand the way we think of space within a digital interface and I think I’ve reached a point of understanding that might help shift traditional approaches to something more systematic.
On Design System Support. Having a Support Mindset — alanbsmith.medium.com
We spend a lot of time supporting teams, and I think it’s one of our design system’s biggest strengths. Specific processes often are tied up in institutional contexts that don’t translate well, but…
I grew from a designer to a design manager in 1.5 years, and this is what I learned. — medium.com
A few months after I joined 99.co, our design lead left, and we were two junior/mid level designers who had to hold up the entire design team across three product squads in a small startup. I soon…
The Future of Design System Documentation — medium.com
We’re shaping the future of design system documentation with Notion. Learn the behind-the-scenes and get a sneak peek of what’s next.
Design System Videos:
Better Components through spec — Taylor Cashdan live at Into Design Systems Conference — www.youtube.com
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How I use Notion for design system documentation — www.youtube.com
This is a pre-finished version of the design system documentation that I have started for Compass of Design.This is a response to Susan Zhuang’s question on …
Design System Podcasts:
Ep 16: Automation by Design System Office Hours — anchor.fm
Davy talks with PJ about various ways of automating design system and design ops tasks to help our day-to-day lives as worker-bees easier. Episode Transcripts
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