📝 Articles
Sacred Interfaces: The Shinto Inspiration for Design Systems
Christopher explores the connection between Marie Kondo's KonMari method and Design Systems in UX, drawing parallels from the Shinto religion. They highlight how both methodologies emphasise simplicity, joy, and purpose, suggesting that the principles of mindfulness, intentionality, and respect in Shinto and KonMari can inform and enhance the development and maintenance of user-centric, harmonious design systems.
Structuring a component review process in a Design System 🇵🇹
Lyncoln discusses the importance of a structured component review process in a Design System, emphasizing collaboration between Product Designers and the Design System team. The process, known as DS Review, ensures the correct application of components, identifies improvement opportunities, and facilitates feedback and education about the Design System, ultimately enhancing product quality and team efficiency.
Design Systems Metrics
André shares insights from leading the Hotmart Design System, emphasszing the importance of selecting metrics based on the team's maturity level and the system's architecture. They discuss practical approaches to measuring development, adoption, team operation, and shared responsibility, highlighting the need for both quantitative and qualitative metrics to effectively demonstrate the value and progress of a Design System.
What Kirby Can Teach Us About Flexible Visual Systems
Barbara explores how Kirby exemplifies the concept of flexible visual systems in design. Kirby's adaptability and simple form allow for creative exploration without losing their core identity, offering valuable lessons for brands in maintaining visual balance while adapting to changing contexts and cultural shifts.
👀 Interesting Reads
How we have evolved our accessibility specification 🇫🇷
Ana Cuentro details the enhancement of Carrefour Bank's accessibility specifications in design, focusing on early integration to reduce costs and improve efficiency. The article highlights the development of a user-friendly Figma library and the establishment of the Accessibility Room for specialised consulting, aiming to better support screen reader users and streamline the design process.
10 Tips for Driving Design System Adoption
Nefertiti offers ten strategies for encouraging the adoption of design systems, including starting with user research, aligning with company goals, identifying champions, creating a tailored rollout plan, celebrating early successes, highlighting benefits, prioritising education, making adoption easy, ensuring flexibility for diverse needs, and monitoring metrics to guide strategy adjustments.
We need to have a chat? I think we should refactor
Jon discusses the challenging yet necessary process of refactoring a design system, focusing on improving usability and aligning with new Figma features. They emphasise the importance of planning, team collaboration, and transparent communication with users to ensure successful adoption and integration of the updated system.
🖤 Design Systems
Salt Design System
Salt is the Design System from J.P. Morgan. I really like their component viewer that displays their components in their different variants as well as various sizes and themes.