Into Design Systems Weekly — Issue #12
Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
Figma Dark Mode — Fully dark mode for all versions of the Figma app — figmadark.com
Install dark mode in the Figma app interface. Make your Figma dark.
Into Design Systems — The future of Design Systems Tickets — www.eventbrite.de
Eventbrite — Design Friends Community presents Into Design Systems — The future of Design Systems — Monday, May 23, 2022 | Wednesday, May 25, 2022 — Find event and ticket information.
11 fantastic benefits of design systems — bootcamp.uxdesign.cc
In this article I will talk about the known and not so well known benefits of implementing a design system. And before you get the wrong idea: no, you can’t fire all designers. A design system is an…
The Future of Design Tokens — Live with James Nash from J.P. Morgan — www.linkedin.com
Happy to announce our next talk! 🛸The Future of Design Tokens — James Nash from J.P. Morgan, James is a format specification editor at the Design Tokens…
Spacing guide for designers — uxplanet.org
Spaces are the horizontal and vertical distances between two components or the viewpoints of the screen. All spaces are set to an increment of 8 (8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, … 128). The “Spacing guide for…
Composition-Based Design System In Figma — Smashing Magazine — www.smashingmagazine.com
Figma has advanced enough where it now supports some powerful concepts that can help with the flexibility and maintainability of a design system. In this article, Sasha explains why she finds the Systems Designer position so rewarding — and it’s not only because of how fast certain tools have developed to help her master challenges she faces in her work projects.
What it takes to get a design system built in 2022 — bootcamp.uxdesign.cc
If you’re reading this, you have heard enough about design systems by now, so we’re not going to get into any of the basics. Yes, they’re excellent. Yes, your startup probably needs one, even if it…
Everything you need to know about spacing & layout grids — www.uiprep.com
This guide will walk though spacing and layout grid best practices based on Material Design, Bootstrap, and Figma.
Why do people use Spacer components? Personally, I prefer using Auto Layout wrappers and controlling spacing with gaps but there might be a use case I’m overlooking? — twitter.com
“Why do people use Spacer components? Personally, I prefer using Auto Layout wrappers and controlling spacing with gaps but there might be a use case I’m overlooking? Made some pros and cons below 👇”
Flexible Design Systems empower the community — www.youtube.com
#DesignSystems #DesignSystem #DesignOps⚡️Next Design Systems conference:🛸The Future of Design Systems, May 23–25 2022 — OnlineSpeakers from Volkswagen AG, D…
Maggie Appleton 🧭 on Twitter: “We’ve been working a new protocol at @hashintel It’s called the block protocol (but NOT about blockchain or NFTs!) It allows you to build reusable blocks (aka. components) that are interchangeable across website/apps” — twitter.com
How Figma Helped the Sounding Board Product Design Team Scale — medium.com
When I first started at Sounding Board, the team had adopted Sketch as its design tool of choice. Although I had been using Figma for the past few years, I thought that would be fine. Having started…
Figma for Developers. — seya01.medium.com
Does an engineer need to be proficient in design tools? I think you can do your job without it, but you can definitely do better quality work if you are more proficient with it. First of all, let’s…
