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10 Key Learnings From Implementing a Support Channel for a Design System
Miguel shares ten key lessons learned from establishing a support channel for a design system, emphasising the importance of transparency, timely responses, and effective documentation. They highlight the need for clear communication protocols, handling diverse requests, and leveraging the support channel to foster collaboration and improve system adoption.
Growing a design system organically
The Veneer team at HP Inc. shares their journey of building a software design system within a hardware-focused company, highlighting the challenges of breaking down silos and gaining support. They emphasise the importance of collaboration, education, and demonstrating the tangible benefits of a design system, which eventually led to significant time and cost savings, transforming Veneer from a side project into a vital resource supporting over 70 software teams within HP.
Designing design systems: Constructing an icon system
Isabelle from Adobe Design shares the process of redesigning the Spectrum icon system to create a unified brand experience across Adobe’s extensive product portfolio. The process involved a three-phase approach: defining guiding principles, beta testing with product teams, and finalizing design details, all while ensuring flexibility, adaptability, and consistency in icon usage across various platforms and contexts.
3 ways we’ve energised our design system governance
Stuart shares how the team at ScottishPower revitalised their design system governance by streamlining their process into a single Slack channel, introducing a discovery board for managing new ideas, and refining their delivery board to track confirmed updates. These changes have improved efficiency, enabled better collaboration across teams, and ensured smoother management of their design system, Breeze.
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Innovating Design Systems with The Spiral Approach
Assaf advocates for using the" Spiral Approach" in design systems, drawing parallels to educational theory where learning builds incrementally. By starting with simple components and gradually increasing complexity, design systems can evolve effectively, ensuring continuous growth, collaboration, and long-term sustainability. This approach emphasizes the importance of iterative learning and revisiting foundational elements to enhance and refine the system over time.
SOLID Principles for Designers
José López Gonzálvez discusses how SOLID principles, originally from software engineering, can be applied to design system components. By focusing on modularity, flexibility, and coherence, these principles help designers create more robust and scalable systems, improving collaboration with developers and overall workflow efficiency.
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Design Systems Index
Ruben has collated a list of 268 Design Systems documentation sites. If they're a private or public sector Design System. International or country specific and what tool they're using.