Sketch Tutorial

How to build a Design System in Sketch (Part Three)

Let me show you the foundations that need to be laid to start building up a powerful Design System

With this short Series of Articles I aim to show you how to build the foundations of a powerful, versatile Design System/UI Starter Kit that will enable you to move much faster on your next project inside of Sketch.

Never start a design project staring at an empty Artboard again!

PS: If you want to get up to speed, check out Parts One and Two of this Tutorial Series here and here.

Choose your Symbols wisely young Jedi

So what goes into a versatile, and powerful Design System?

Symbols.

And lots of them.

It’s a big job in creating hundreds of Symbols in the first instance but when it’s done it’s a smoother ride from there on with just smaller incremental additions as required.