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Thoughts, ideas and resources for design systems
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System of Least Resistance
The importance of reviewing expectations and providing small incremental ways to adopt your design system
This Blog Is Independent Now
This blog is now solely owned by me, David Darnes, your friendly neighborhood Design Systems person
Bluesky & Design Systems Communities
Now is a great time to join Bluesky if you're looking for likeminded folks to learn and share about design systems
Design Systems Glossaries & Primitive tokens
There's an abundance of lexicon in design systems, for better or worse, so it's nice to see the community sharing definitions
Dependency in Design Systems
Are we thinking considerately enough when introducing dependencies into our company's design and development workflows?
The Unsolicited Design System
What if the only way to prompt design system discussion is to do a bad job to begin with?
Design System Checklist
An open-source checklist to help you plan, build, and grow your design system.
What Even Is Style Dictionary Anyway?
A guide on Style Dictionary, Design Tokens Community Group Spec, and a few things in between.
The Unsung Design System Strut
The reasons for supporting open-source tools are only compounded when working with design systems
Design Systems Is the Good Fight
More often than not you're going to find yourself defending the goals and purposes of your design system
Icons
A, sometimes, deceptively challenging issue to solve
HTML is a Global Design System
Ever since Brad Frost mentioned it at the start of the year, the Global Design System fuse has continued to burn slowly
CarPlay design system
Apple shares their latest CarPlay UI at WWDC24
WTF is a Design System?
We asked, and this is what you all said