⚡️Into Design Systems Weekly — Special Edition

The Future of Design Systems Conference⚡️ is starting next Monday May, 23! Let’s honour some of our amazing speakers & contributors by highlighting their work this week

4 min readMay 20, 2022

The Future of Design Systems

Starting Next Monday — LIVE — Last tickets:

The Future of Design Systems — Online Conference — May 23–25 2022 — intodesignsystems.com
The Future of Design Systems — 3 days live conference. 12+ speakers, 500+ Design System Friends. Topics: Multibrand Design Systems, Design Tokens, DesignOps. Limited Tickets

Publications by our speakers

Stop building Design Systems without a tracker — by Sandra Schaus — uxdesign.cc
Hey there, hope you’re digitally detoxed! Grab your coffee and we’re good to go. This time you will probably need two cups. But hey — then you’re finally awake! What to expect in this article: You’re…

Becoming a design tokens ambassador — by Michael Mangialardi — specifyapp.com
Let’s see why a design tokens pipeline is an improvement that interests the developers, designers, and business stakeholders.

Make your design system accessible — Part 1: Color by Lukas Oppermann — uxdesign.cc
A high quality & successful design system must be accessible. Learn how to design accessible color palettes and how to avoid common color mistakes when building design systems & components.

Creating design systems with Figma Tokens by Jan Six — www.marcandrew.me
A guide on how to build design systems that scale easily and sync with GitHub, with the help of a plugin called Figma Tokens.

Specify | Design Data Platforms 101 — by Louis Chenais — specifyapp.com
Specify helps you unify your brand identity by collecting, storing and distributing design tokens and assets for your design system — automatically.

DesignOps 101: Guide to Design Operations by UXPin — www.uxpin.com
Read the ebook to learn all about what DesignOps is, how it can help your team and how to implement it. Get insights from top design leaders.

Videos from our previous conference

Tools presented at our conference

Figma Tokens — by Esther Cheran & Jan Six — www.figmatokens.com
A figma plugin allowing you to apply, manage and sync design tokens from Figma to code.

Component Spec Tool — by Taylor Cashdan & Team — 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…

Gist — by Mike Wilson — www.figma.com
View component docs without leaving your working file. Write Markdown-styled documentation and save it directly to your components. Editing Select a Frame or Component and open the editor to write your documentation. Use Markdown to style your documentation by adding: headers, lists, images, etc…

Figma Design Tokens — by Lukas Oppermann — www.figma.com
Export Figma styles and custom tokens to a style dictionary ready json or sync to github. Vote for us on ProductHunt Design Tokens You can create design tokens for the following properties: colorstypograhygridseffectssizesspacing (padding)radiibordersmotion Benefits ✅ Actively developed ✅ Compa…

The Future of Design Systems Conference⚡️ is happening next Monday! Let’s honour some of our amazing speakers & contributors!

World’s first Design-System-as-a-Service platform | Supernova.io — www.supernova.io
Build, maintain and deliver your design system to all your product teams, blazing fast

Distribute your brand from design to code — specifyapp.com
Specify helps you unify your brand identity by collecting, storing and distributing design tokens and assets for your design system — automatically.

Solve DesignOpschallenges with Merge — www.uxpin.com
Design with live code. Render interactive UI libraries from production code.

See you next Monday! Agenda & Tickets: