Into Design Systems Weekly — Issue #16
Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
Figma: Component Spec Tool — www.figma.com
Welcome to the Component Spec Tool, a library file built to help ease the design-to-engineering handoff related to design systems component work. Some key features include: ✅ Installable without any dependencies ✅ View-only access ready! ❌ Not a Plugin or 3rd-party integration ✅ Customizab…
Live Workshop: Building token-based Design Systems in Figma — Part 2 — www.eventbrite.de
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. Live hands-on workshop designing token-based design systems in Figma utilizing the plugin “Figma Tokens”. 🗓 Date: May, 22nd 2022⏰ Time: 4PM — 8PM CET ⏱Duration: 4 hours🙋🏽♂️Workshop facilitator: Jan Six, Creator of Figma Tokens Plugin & Sr. Product Designer at GitHub
5 core design system tips. How to work with design systems in Figma — uxdesign.cc
Creating and maintaining design systems is an incredibly interesting job. It allows you to combine and develop both the skills of a designer and a developer.
Design tokens and why design systems need them? — mikaelvesavuori.medium.com
This is an excerpt from a course I am making with Newline, called “The newline Guide to React Component Design Systems with Figmagic”. You might also be interested in my article “How To Automate…
How to keep a Design System alive? — medium.com
Get the team’s feedback and define the next improvements to make: how’s the documentation going? How easy-to-use is the Figma design DS? And the tech specs? How can we make the designer or developer…
Demian Borba on Twitter: “The Intuit design system team is hard at work on our new #IDS plugin for #Figma, now supporting drag and drop of components and variants, as well as theming powered by our #designtokens coming from our #API, at runtime — twitter.com
“The Intuit design system team is hard at work on our new #IDS plugin for #Figma, now supporting drag and drop of components and variants, as well as theming powered by our #designtokens coming from our #API, at runtime. Hope to share more soon… #vscode #androidstudio #storybook https://t.co/QOput7G29t”
Figma: Visual Difference — www.figma.com
Compare snapshots of Figma objects to visually compare later as those objects change. This Figma plug enables you to add and manage snapshots per Figma page using the Visual Difference dialog. Per comparison, you can: Compare baseline and latest versions side by sideQuickly switch between the c…
Structuring documentation in multi-brand design systems by Amy Hupe — amyhupe.co.uk
Some options for organising guidance in multi-brand design systems
Process design for design teams. Scaling a team from 1 to 9 team members — medium.com
I collaborated with our SDLC team to establish automation in Jira. For any Jira project in the org, when product sets “UX Design” to “yes” at the epic level, three design tasks are routed to a single…
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.
