Curiosity by Design
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Curiosity by Design

Mike Dick

Aug 20, 2019

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The ABCs of Design Systems

The A-Z guide for operating your design systems team

Illustrations by Francisco Morales

A is for Adoption

Measure how people are using (or not using) your design system

There are two groups who need to adopt your design system: designers who use UI kits and engineers who use a code library such as React. Design adoption is easy — just swap out the UI kit…

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We’re a passionate group of designers, content strategists, and researchers who create the SurveyMonkey experience. We’re as diverse in thought as we are similar in experience — and we’re curious…by design.

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Design Systems at SurveyMonkey, Twitch, Quora, Amazon. Built nvite (acquired by Eventbrite) and Cage app (acquired by BitConfused)

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