📝 Articles
Design systems don’t start with components
"Good design systems start with a vision. A creative direction before they become a thing."
Adopting Design Systems
A fantastic article from Nathan on getting team and managerial adoption for the design system.
What’s the difference between style guides, pattern libraries, and design systems?
Joseph shares with us how the organisation he works within is using these terms in their design and development
Style Guides as Products
If you think about your style guide / design system as a product it could be better placed to help solve your user needs and aide adoption
👀 Interesting Reads
Can we open source this?
Elizabeth discusses the benefits, the pros and the cons of open sourcing an organisations design system - which they used to help open source the Norwegian postal service's system
What Does a Well-Documented CSS Codebase Look Like?
"A well-documented CSS codebase enforces consistency, boosts maintainability, and helps the team to build a shared vocabulary."
Design systems book
If you buy one book this year, get this one - a preview of the first part is already available to read - and it is most excellent.