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Every company is building its own Design System, to be able to manage design at scale and create consistency for users. Here are a few directions for you to get started.

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:

  • Efficiency for your team. Design systems save time and money. Instead of creating components from scratch, designers and developers can re-use existing pieces and create new pages with more efficiency and speed.
  • Consistency for your users. Design systems enable your team to create familiar experiences for your audience, eliminating inconsistencies and making sure that every time someone interacts with your company, their experience will always look and feel the same.
  • Scale for your company. With efficiency comes the ability to scale. Design systems allow for automation in the design process — which means companies have the ability to build more with less resources.

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.

Design Systems — References

Mailchimp UX: Design System

Grid System | MailChimp

IBM Design Language: a shared vocabulary for design

IBM Design Language

Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines

Themes – Overview – iOS Human Interface Guidelines

Microsoft’s Fluent Design System

Microsoft Design

Atlassian’s End-to-End Design Language

Atlassian Design Guidelines | Atlassian Design

Airbnb’s Design Language System

The Way We Build

BBC’s Global Experience Language

BBC GEL | Homepage

Intuit’s Harmony Design System

Harmony Design System

Salesforce’s Lightning Design System

Lightning Design System

Buzzfeed’s Solid Style Guide

WTF is Solid? – Solid

Shopify’s Polaris Design System

Shopify Polaris

Google’s Material Design

Material Design

Fitbit’s Components Guide

Components Guide

Zendesk’s Garden Design Library

Zendesk Garden

USA Web Design Standards

U.S. Web Design Standards: A design system for the federal government

WeWork’s Plasma Design System

Plasma design system

Design Systems — Articles

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

Setup a design system

Why Design Systems Fail

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

Design Systems — Videos

Design Systems — Specialists to follow

Shahrzad Samadzadeh

Shahrzad Samadzadeh – Medium

Allison Shaw

Allison Shaw – Medium

Magera Moon

Magera Moon (@mageramoon) | Twitter

Caitlin Osbahr

Caitlin Osbahr – Medium

Diana Mounter

Diana Mounter – Medium

Audrey Hacq

Audrey Hacq – Medium

Nick Stamas

Nick Stamas – Medium

Wen Wang

Wen Wang – Medium

James Mulholland

James Mulholland – Medium

Additional Resources

Design Systems, the book

Design systems – Alla Kholmatova

Design System coalition

Design Systems Coalition NYC

Brad Frost’s “Designing Systems”

Designing Systems | Atomic Design by Brad Frost

DesignSystems.com

Figma + Design Systems

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