Into Design Systems Weekly — Issue #14
Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
Becoming a design tokens ambassador — specifyapp.com
Let’s see why a design tokens pipeline is an improvement that interests the developers, designers, and business stakeholders.
Workshop: Building token-based Design Systems in Figma — Step by step — intodesignsystems.gumroad.com
Learn how to create and apply Design Tokens in Figma. With Figma Tokens you will be able to easily customize and maintain your Design System and create Themes (e.g Light & Dark Themes) within minutes.
Multibrand Design System — How to get buy-in from different stakeholders — www.youtube.com
#DesignSystem #DesignOps #DesignSystems Multibrand Design System — How to get buy-in from different stakeholders live with Thorsten Jankowski, User Experienc…
Figma quick trick: negative spacing in auto layout — medium.com
Hello, fellow Figma enjoyers. Today I’m going to tell you about another trick that everyone seems to know, except me. But this time I will show you 2 ways to do the trick, so grab a 2 for 1 deal…
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…
Design system versioning: single library or individual components? — bradfrost.com
You can version a design system’s component library as a single package (e.g. Polaris v8.0), or you can version each component within the library as its own mini package (e.g. Atlaskit Badge v15.0.8) This post breaks down the pros and cons of versioning the whole library vs individual components.
Component health in design systems — bootcamp.uxdesign.cc
Design systems are living, breathing artefacts. Their components and guidelines are never finished, always developing, ebbing and flowing between work in progress and healthy states. For us…
Baseline #5 — Naming in Figma — by Joey Banks — joeyabanks.substack.com
Naming is tough! Here are a few tips that may help.
The Future of Design Systems — Online
🗓 May, 23–25 2022
👩🎨 12+ speakers
❤️ 500 #DesignSystem Friends
🎟 Limited Tickets: https://bit.ly/futureofds
New speaker announcements:
Multidimensional Design System
Patrycja Rozmus, Design Systems Lead at Brainly
Can building a design system team and design infrastructure from scratch for a hyper-growth business be a valuable lesson in predicting the future of design systems? Can it lay not only in building one bridge — between designers and developers — but an intersection? If you agree, you might be interested in joining me in reflecting on that experience and signals that multidimensional design systems might be the future. And if you disagree, we will probably have an exciting Q&A session!
Designer and Developer Round Table: Creating a Design Tokens Pipeline That Encourages Collaboration
Michael Mangialardi, Frontend Engineer
A design tokens pipeline is more than just an internal dev tool, it is a collaborative system impacting designers and developers. Sometimes, the practical boundaries, responsibilities, and processes are confusing — and often they vary based on the circumstances. In this talk, we’ll go to the drawing board to provide a framework for landing on a collaborative system that can work in various circumstances.
Creating legible Design System documentation — the necessary steps for doing it right
Nathan Beddows, Design System Writer, ŠKODA AUTO a.s
- How to undertake the entire process
- Understanding who your audience is
- How to adjust your writing style accordingly
- And much more!
