Into Design Systems Weekly — Issue #13

Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:

Meetup: Multibrand Design System within the Volkswagen group & its brands — Free Entry

Multibrand Design System within the Volkswagen group & its brands — communication is key! (Replay) & Live Q&A with Thorsten Jankowski, User Experience Lead Group IT, Volkswagen & Matthias Fritsch, Design System Lead MAN

Facilitating a virtual Design System Hackathon for 200 participants from all around the world

A non-profit Design Systems Hackathon by Into Design Systems — took place in January 9–10th 2022. It was an event organized by the community for the community.

How to create large component sets in Figma

Creating and maintaining design systems is an incredibly interesting work. It allows you to combine and develop both the skills of a designer and an engineer. It is also an opportunity to be a…

Creating Components For Mature Design Systems

All design systems follow a similar component creation process — but how does this change as you scale towards a mature design system?

Accessibility Checklist — The A11Y Project

A beginner’s guide to digital accessibility.

Rationalise it! 5 steps to introduce a new component to the design system

Adding new components to the design system is a common routine task. Ideally, the design system team would figure out their own process for that. However, sometimes they won’t.

Into Design Systems — The future of Design Systems Tickets, Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:30 PM | Eventbrite

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.

Figma quick trick: components with customisable contents.

Hi everyone, Maybe I’m just super slow for not discovering this little trick that I’m about to show you earlier, but I’ll share it anyway. I hope it will help someone like me to bring more structure…

Colorblind Accessibility Manifesto

efore designing a website, or even making a small change to an existing one, ask if your design choices consider the needs of people with color blindness. Changing the button color on your website may seem insignificant, but it could make that website inaccessible to nearly 8% of men and 0.4% of women who have color blindness.

Building a design system at Grubhub

Once upon a time, there was a company in Boston called LevelUp — and before that SCVNGR. LevelUp built custom apps for restaurants that enabled a suite of functionality — including rewards campaigns…