Creating A Design System: Recommended Resources
Webinars
- Balancing UX Consistency and Developer Productivity in a Design System
- Creating a Design System: A Practitioner Case Study
- Creating and Scaling Enterprise Design Systems
Books
- The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
- Modular Web Design by Nathan Curtis
- Atomic Design by Brad Frost
- Front-end Architecture for Design Systems by Micah Godbolt
Articles
Nathan Curtis
- Design Systems Leaders and Managers
- The Principles of Designing Systems
- What Will Your Design Systems Deliver?
- Contributions to Design Systems
- Component QA in Design Systems
- Patterns ≠ Components
- Light & Dark Color Systems
- Reference Designs for Systems
- Tokens in Design Systems
- Buttons in Design Systems
- Color in Design Systems
- Picking Parts, Product, and People: A Team Activity to Start a Design System
- Right-Sizing the Rectangle: Grappling With Hierarchy in Design Systems
- A Design System Isn’t a Project, It’s a Product Serving Products
- Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
- A Design System’s Reach
- The Component-Cut Up Workshop
- Balancing Platforms in a Design System
Marcin Treder
- Design Systems Sprint 0: The Silver Bullet of Product Development
- Design Systems Sprint 1: The Interface Inventory
- Design System Sprint 2: One Color Palette to Rule them All
- Design System Sprint 3: Managing the Basics
- Design System Sprint 4: Design Principles
- Design System Sprint 5: Managing Typography
- Design System Sprint 6: The Fastest Icons on Earth
- The Minimum Viable Design System
- Design Systems Are a Language. Product Is a Conversation
Brad Frost
Dan Mall
WeWork
Salesforce
- Living Design Systems
- The Lightning Design System is the Next Generation of Living Style Guides
- Introducing Design System Ops
- React JS and the Lightning Design System
Airbnb
Spotify
GE
Intuit
Bottomline Technologies
- Creating and Scaling Enterprise Design Systems
- Beautiful Seams: Creating a Coherent Experience Across Products
Other:
- How to Construct a Design System
- Design Systems in 2016
- The Current State of Design Systems
- Design Systems and Postel’s Law
- How Designers Can Use Unit Testing to Build Resilient and Happy Design Systems
- What is Design Operations and Why Should You Care?
- Component Workshops: Our One-Two Punch for Kicking Off a New Design System
- Object-Oriented UX
- The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring
- The Full-Stack Design System
