📝 Articles
Musings on Front-End Development and Design
From decisions to documentation to design. Una Kravets shares with us what she's learned working on design systems these last couple of years.
Taking Pattern Libraries To The Next Level
An epic article from Vitaly discussing lots of things that make towards a great pattern library.
Space in Design Systems
Nathan's considers space in design systems and looks at what types of space there are and how we can formalise them with design tokens.
Thoughtful CSS Architecture
a great post from Nathan at Sparkbox about architecting the CSS of a project and what we should consider when doing so. Bonus video at the end.
Code
Patternry
a web-based tool that helps create a living style guide and pattern library. With opportunity to include design assets, guidelines, discussions as well as code.
🎧 🎥 📊 Audio / Video / Slides
Designing a Design System
In this conference talk video Jina discusses how to approach, design, build, and maintain an effective design system.
Designing Systems: Theory, Practice, and the Unfortunate In-Between
In his talk from SmashingConf Paul discusses the emergence of design systems on the web, comparing it to older systems in the world. Discovering what makes a maintainable, sustainable design system.