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Should you use 3rd party libraries in your design systems?
Whether self-driven or requested from a senior stakeholder, you need to make a ‘design system,’ whatever that is! You may or may not have people to work on this or any experience working in this sp...
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Components as contracts
When you import a component from a design library or a code repository, the components are largely black boxes: you include them and pass in (or set) properties for how they should display. This cr...
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Ways to structure your Storybook
Storybook is a great platform for showing your coded components in all kinds of codebases. Maybe your developers use it already? Here are some observations that have worked for me that might help y...
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Communication at the core
It’s often said that design systems are all about people. So much of what makes a design system work is that collaborative and communicative aspect, so why is it often so hard? I wanted to look at ...
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Automated testing and design systems
Testing is often an under-appreciated discipline in the world of product development. It's easy to overlook as it can be manifested in many ways and doesn’t produce any glamorous output like a desi...
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An introduction to the engineering side of design tokens
Much of the conversation around design tokens seems to be around the design side of the equation - how designers might be able to use this format. What happens after design decisions have been capt...
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Naming is hard: creating with intent and purpose
It’s long been known, not just in the design systems community that naming things can be really difficult. I’d often refer people to Nathan Curtis’ article around the naming of design tokens as evi...
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Finding your language
Design systems can be a powerful vehicle to improve communication and collaboration. They’re also aspects that can take a lot of time and effort, not just at the beginning of creating a design syst...
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Deprecating in design systems: When it's time to say goodbye
Everything has a shelf life, a time when something has served its purpose and it’s no longer needed. While we talk a lot about how to start a design system, it’s not often talked about what to do w...
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Design of people systems
Talking to people in all kinds of scenarios with design systems, means I get to share some learnings that might help you on your journey. There are many differences between each set-up but one thin...
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