Design Systems Daily
Each day, I write daily bite-sized chunks of insight about building digital products at scale. Topics covered include user research, design systems, and team collaboration... with infrequent silliness and irreverence thrown in for good measure.
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👇 Here's what I've written so far:
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Getting specific around the naming and structure of my new tokens.
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A quick review of design tokens, with a focus on practical naming strategies for a small, MVP component library with an eye toward growth.
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Important problems, a custom GPT, and multi-window wizardry.
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The practice of collective thankfulness can change our perspective, if only for a moment, and reminds us of the richness of our lives.
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A real-world example of a design systems team working with engineers to solve usability issues.
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Help users understand and navigate your design system with Storybook’s standalone pages.
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Make Storybook more useful to users of your system by chronicling a practical build journey.
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Sara Soueidan’s exhaustive and practical accessibility course finally launched.
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Ben Callahan hosts a collaborative weekly conversation for anyone seriously interested in Design Systems.
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Writing stories for a component so they can be showcased in an isolated development environment (aka Storybook).
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A quick recap of Storybook and how I’m planning to use it in my design system.
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A design system is a product, and you should market that product to the people who will benefit from it.
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With some really thoughtfully structured design systems, we can reduce the friction between design decisions and software development.
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The true benefit of a centralized component library approach.
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Prepping component libraries is not glamorous, but it helps ensure compatibility across codebases.
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Pulling a component out of one codebase and into a separate component library file.
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There are several ways to style web components. Which do I recommend?
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Building out a sample component in React.
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I've designed my component, now it's time to build it.
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Recreating a Utility Nav component I designed in Figma using one of Atlassian's design system components.
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Figure out what assumptions you can make about your audience’s skill level and make sure you verify that assumption.
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Design systems are a part of software development and involve the messy work of versioning, platforms, and dependencies.
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Legacy support, versioning, release cadence — these are the types of things engineers think about when creating applications. If you’re building tools that engineering teams will consume, you need to be mindful of them too.
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I need to create an app so I can include my design system in it.
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Helping designers understand the realities of software development improves alignment and generates better conversations between designers and engineers during the product creation process.
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