📝 Articles
Design systems management from bottom-up
Roman highlights the significance of integrating design systems into organisational processes and understanding varied team perspectives. They advocate for adopting Scrum methodologies, tailored to specific team needs, to enhance efficiency and collaboration.
The Design System Ecosystem
Brad's article delves into the intricate layers and components of a design system ecosystem, emphasizing its importance for cohesive UI across a company's digital platforms. While the system's structure is critical, the human relationships and processes are pivotal for its successful implementation and maintenance.
Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slowe
In the article, Josh suggests that design systems function best when developed at a deliberate pace, focusing on quality rather than speed. This slower development ensures a robust and reliable foundation, which in turn supports the faster-paced innovation of product teams.
👀 Interesting Reads
Going Back to the Roots of STEM
In this article, Atithi Srivastava discusses the process of building a design system called STEM at Attentive Designing Team. The article covers the challenges faced by designers, developers, and product managers, the approach taken to address those challenges, and the benefits of implementing the design system.
🛠 Tutorials
Syncing Figma Variables and Style Dictionary with GitHub Actions
James walks us through a method to sync design tokens from Figma variables to your Github repo using Style Dictionary and Github Actions. Using the Figma API, the Figma variables are fetched, stored in GitHub and transformed in Style Dictionary to use in your codebase.
🧰 Tools / Resources
Classnames
Naming things needn't be hard with this from Paul Robert Lloyd - "Find inspiration for naming things – be that HTML classes, CSS properties or JavaScript functions – using these lists of useful words."
🔗 Links
Design Systems Events
A neat little site so you can keep on top of the best design system events happening around the world. Subscribe for free.
🖤 Design Systems
Porsche Design System
Here's the Design System for Porsche, including guidelines, tutorials, components and tokens.