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Design system: a series of components that can be reused in different combinations, allowing companies to manage design at scale.
Every company — big and small — is building or planning on building a design system for its SaaS offerings. It makes sense. Having a design system in place is an important step for scaling your organization.
The benefits of implementing a design system include:
But building a design system isn’t simple at all. So here are a few links, articles, examples, tutorials and talks about design systems that can help you in the process of creating a design system in your company.
Hurry up, though! The cool name options for design systems (Plasma, Fluent, Harmony, Solid, Polaris) are almost all gone.
Mailchimp UX: Design System
IBM Design Language: a shared vocabulary for design
Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines
Themes – Overview – iOS Human Interface Guidelines
Microsoft’s Fluent Design System
Atlassian’s End-to-End Design Language
Atlassian Design Guidelines | Atlassian Design
Airbnb’s Design Language System
BBC’s Global Experience Language
Intuit’s Harmony Design System
Salesforce’s Lightning Design System
Buzzfeed’s Solid Style Guide
Shopify’s Polaris Design System
Google’s Material Design
Fitbit’s Components Guide
Zendesk’s Garden Design Library
USA Web Design Standards
U.S. Web Design Standards: A design system for the federal government
WeWork’s Plasma Design System
Selling a Design System at your company
Selling a Design System at Your Company
Atomic design: how to design systems of components
Atomic design: how to design systems of components
Selling a Design System before asking for buy-in
Selling a Design System before asking for buy-in
How to get a head start on Design Systems
How To Get A Head Start On Design System
Designing Design Systems for complex products
Designing Design System for Complex Products
Creating a product Design System in Sketch
Creating a first Product Design System in Sketch
Setting up a design system
Why Design Systems Fail
The most exciting design systems are boring
The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring | Big Medium
On Design Systems: sell the output, not the workflow
Magera Moon
Magera Moon (@mageramoon) | Twitter
Design Systems, the book
Design systems – Alla Kholmatova
Design System coalition
Brad Frost’s “Designing Systems”
Designing Systems | Atomic Design by Brad Frost
DesignSystems.com
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