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Design tokens with Figma
3 min · · A couple of days ago made a free UI Kit in Figma of not existing online magazine Wunderzine. I made it for a demonstration. And today I… · Shared by 26, including mastodon.social/@renestalder, Evan (he/him), Marius Bleuer
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How We Build a Design System
20+ min · · Building a design system with components to standardize and scale our UI development process. · Shared by 103, including Davy De Pauw, Evan (he/him), David Hellmann, George Waititu, Yoav Ganbar (🥑 Builder.io/Qwik)
piccalil.li
What are design tokens?
4 min · · Design tokens are just spicy variables, right? Wrong! They are an extremely versatile way of sharing design properties and in this tutorial, you’ll learn how they work. · Shared by 13, including Mohamed Azazy, Sara Soueidan, Evan (he/him)
medium.com
Naming Tokens in Design Systems
20+ min · · Terms, Types, and Taxonomy to Describe Visual Style · Shared by 121, including Oscar MacDonald, Gabriele, Evan (he/him), Stu Collett, Adrian Zumbrunnen, David Hellmann, CSS Weekly, Stef Walter, Nathan A Curtis, mastodon.social/@renestalder, pizza.lottie 🍕, Mohamed Azazy, Johannes Dornisch, Marius Bleuer, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Michael Zumstein, cody lindley
Harvard Business Review
Why Design Thinking Works
16+ min · · It addresses the biases and behaviors that hamper innovation. · Shared by 408, including Massimiliano Aroffo, Carlo Badini, Roney Lacerda, Ines Bieler, Tom Connor, Mark Kaigwa, Bilal Aslam, Evan (he/him), Jacob Jarnvall, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Gabriele, Leonardo Sumulong, Konrad Weber, 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, Christian P. Stobbe, Oliver Ewinger, MrChad 🔮, Oscar MacDonald, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, Niklaus Gerber
componentdriven.org
Component Driven User Interfaces
1 min · · How modularity is transforming design and frontend development · Shared by 42, including Stu Collett, Evan (he/him), cody lindley, Gabriele, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Mohamed Azazy, Angel Romero, David Garner
UX Collective
Stop building Design Systems without a tracker
13+ min · · For a better system, a predictive blueprint, and a quantitative data tracker · Shared by 73, including Marius Bleuer, pizza.lottie 🍕, Evan (he/him), Stu Collett
designsystemchecklist.com
Design System Checklist
· An open-source checklist to help you plan, build and grow your design system. · Shared by 390, including Hannah Milan, Stu Collett, Linus Basig, Josep M. Ganyet, mastodon.social/@renestalder, Oliver Raduner, Brad Frost, Evan (he/him), Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Johannes Dornisch, Adham Dannaway, Oscar MacDonald, Marius Bleuer, Matt, Gabriele, Mohamed Azazy, Sara Soueidan, Casey Smith, tcherno, Jacob du Toit
A List Apart
Making Room for Variation
9 min · · Design systems exist to bring unity, cohesion, and harmony to our designs. That said, the best design systems are flexible enough to enable variation while still maintaining connectedness between t… · Shared by 107, including Tom Connor, Fabricio Teixeira, Val Head, Evan (he/him), KOstas, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, Oscar MacDonald, Kat, zeldman
Rangle.io
Styled Components, Styled Systems and How They Work
10 min · · By taking the time to understand the fundamental JavaScript features, we become better equipped to improve our use of those libraries. · Shared by 28, including Chris Heilmann codepo8@toot.cafe, Max Stoiber, Evan (he/him)
Rangle.io
Side-loading a design system: Scale knowledge sharing without sacrificing delivery speed
3 min · · As you go from a smaller to a medium-sized team, the need to share knowledge becomes crucial. It is the perfect time to invest in a design system. · Shared by 5, including Evan (he/him)
matthewstrom.com
Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems
11+ min · · An exporation of how an API for design decisions works · Shared by 51, including ThomNagy, Oscar MacDonald, Marius Bleuer, Evan (he/him), Michael Zumstein