Into Design Systems Weekly — Issue #17
Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:
Make your design system accessible — Part 2: Icons | by Lukas Oppermann | Mar, 2022 | UX Collective — uxdesign.cc
In part 1 of design system accessibility I discussed the topic of colors. Part 2 focuses on another really important aspect: Icons. Icons are a major part of any modern interface. They are functional…
Don’t miss Lukas Oppermann’s Talk
Building accessible design systems — LIVE with Lukas Oppermann — Design Lead Design System, Deutsche Telekom
👋🏻 Hope to see you there!
🎟 Limited Tickets: https://bit.ly/futureofds
Figma: Contrast — www.figma.com
Contrast makes it easy to check the contrast ratios of colors as you work. Select a layer and Contrast will immediately look for the color directly behind your selection and serve up the contrast ratio along with passing and failing levels from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). If …
JIRA for designers — Managing design delivery — uxdesign.cc
Managing design delivery in large organisations was always a risky thing and therefore a task that’s traditionally been siloed. Now we’ve reached the point where we understand the basics and have…
Design Systems For Figma | Accessible Design Systems: Look Good While Doing Good — www.designsystemsforfigma.com
Chris LaChance, the Design Ops Lead at Pegasystems talks about how to design and build accessible components for everyone.
How to Execute the Perfect Design-to-Development Handoff — uxplanet.org
Whatever stage your company is at, managing the communication between designers and developers is crucial. Managing this process can often be challenging and involve seemingly endless rounds of…
Figma: Instance Utils — www.figma.com
Gives you more control over nested instances, move them around without detaching. Work best on instances that’s using Auto-Layout V3 This plugin is inspired by Gleb’s Master plugin Major Update Highlights: Monday, September 27th, 2021 Added support for “.slot” naming Sunday, September 26th, 2…
Rethinking Design Documentation — shipt.tech
Picture this. You, the designer, have just wrapped up work creating a new feature. Now, as developers build the feature out, you’re hearing them ask questions like “Where are the latest designs?” or…
To create an excellent design system, treat it like a collaborative process — uxdesign.cc
“Why don’t we add this functionality to our design system?” I suggested, causing one of the veteran UX team members to sigh and explain. “We’ve probably tried every iteration and improvement you…
Figma: Find and Replace Colors — www.figma.com
Importing an unorganized design from Sketch APP? Coworker sends you an unfinished template without Figma color styles? Need to unified colors for a template? FRC(Find and Replace Colors) is made for designers or teams who often need to create or modify templates. It is a quick & easy solutio…
ORFIUM’s Design System — The story from the first step to right now — medium.com
When we started building our Design System at ORFIUM, I was hard-pressed to gather information from other companies that had gone through the process or colleagues with this kind of experience. I…
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. Hands-on workshop designing token-based design systems in Figma utilizing the plugin “Figma Tokens”.
3 hours of practical content
Mastering design systems components in Figma — Jan Toman — Design System Lead @ Productboard — www.youtube.com
#Figma #DesignSystem #UIKit #UIDesign ⭐️ Figma Community File:http://bit.ly/ifds-mastering-components⚡️Next Design Systems conference:🛸The Future of Design …
