Into Design Systems Weekly — Issue #15
Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
Gist: View & write your documentation in Figma — gist-plugin.com
Figma plugin for viewing and editing documentation. Save docs to a component and view in a working file.
We All Are Ukraine 🇺🇦 — Smashing Magazine — www.smashingmagazine.com
As a design community, we all can’t be silent in these times. We need to be united in our fight against the war, for democracy, for those dreams that children are entitled to have when they are growing up. It’s our obligation to help as much as we can. **We are donating all proceeds** from “Interface Design Checklists” PDF to support Ukraine.
Figma: Documentation and organization components — www.figma.com
I collected and created different organizational components to document a Design System. 👀Take a look to the list of elements: ⬆️ Header: SectionSubsectionIndexLabel 📏 Specs: MarginPaddingDimensionPointerPointer note 🔄 Overflow: Flow arrowStatus 🗒 Notes: ExamplesSticky NotesNotepadReference Tags…
Doing it for the wrong reason — Thoughts on design system management — medium.com
This is a textual rendition of a talk I was supposed to give at a design system event at FIVERR on Aug 2021, that got cancelled due to COVID19 outbreak. This talk was intended for designers at…
Into Design Systems — The future of Design Systems Tickets, Mon, May 23, 2022 at 3:30 PM | Eventbrite — 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.
New Speaker Announcements:
The best migration is the one that you don’t have to do yourself
Patrycja Radaczyńska, Senior UI engineer, Contentful
What we’ve learned about breaking changes in the design system while working on the next major version of Forma 36.
The best migration is the one that you don’t have to do yourself
Patrycja Radaczyńska, Senior UI engineer, Contentful
What we’ve learned about breaking changes in the design system while working on the next major version of Forma 36.
Better components through better spec -
Taylor Cashdan, Design Systems Lead, Hologram
During a recent Into Design Systems Hackathon, our multidisciplinary team collaborated across 4 timezones to create a toolkit that helps engineers and designers work together better. The Component Spec Tool streamlines and annotates common CSS classes to aid in more efficient handoffs resulting in better components and streamlined collaboration.
From Design Systems to DesignOps: Establishing DesignOps at your org
Michelle Chin — Principal DesignOps Manager, Citrix
You’ve successfully managed a design system and now there’s more interest in operationalizing other things for the design team. While this is exciting, it can be scary, too. In this talk, we’ll cover how to approach design operations as a team of one. We’ll discuss how to pick projects, how to set yourself up for success, and how to ensure project success.
👋🏻 Hope to see you there!
🎟 Limited Tickets: https://bit.ly/futureofds
Building a Global Design System — medium.com
This case study follows the process of building and evolving a multi-brand design system called Henry, aligning disparate teams on a unified design language for Stanley Black & Decker’s global…
5 Keys to Scaling DesignOps — medium.com
More and more companies are hiring operational specialists to perfect their design department’s way of working. Design executives at major brands are praising DesignOps, since so many are…
Design system for Figma you need to meet — practicedesignsystem.io
Supercharge your design process to design great products in lower time and with less effort.
