FIVE #10
Your weekly dose of digital snacks
Scaling a Design System
A design system contains architecture, content, visual, and supporting assets and templates to produce and/or sustain a consistent and effective product experience. I got in contact due to the work with different clients and often tackled the question of scaling especially as there are different ways to structure companies.
This article is about three different organisation structures and how to scale design systems in these different setups.
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► The Salesforce Team Model for Scaling a Design System
Personas budget
Personas are the most effective way to make needs tangible and as a communication tool remind people of these. It’s difficult to measure impact and efficiency directly based a this single task but as I am convinced that it’s working far further we can even think. A persona most often is a multiplier.
This article is about the time it’s take to create such a persona within different company sizes.
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► How Much Time Does It Take to Create Personas?
Information Design
Information design is kind of a science as it has impact of people orientation — in digital and the real world. The information design that was claimed this way was London’s tube map. There was a huge but necessary dismatch between reality and structured map.
This article is about the redesign of New York’s subway map — the difficulties and a summary of the characteristics.
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► The New York City Subway Map Redesigned
Programmers Design Differently
Usually it’s about the barrier between designers and developer from a designer perspective. This article tackles this topic in a reverse way. It helps to understand needs in terms of communication and behaviour to code UI. As this happens based on a plugin for Sketch it also is quite tangible as most are working with the tools either from one or the other perspective.
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► Programmers Design Differently: Why I Built a CSS Plugin for Sketch
Tool: Neonto Studio
In the series of UX tools, this time it’s about Neonto Studio. It claims itself as a tool to create an app vision into real code in hours, not weeks.
What’s impressive though is the way how it combines kind of XCode’s Storyboard view with a visual layer to design and an immediate device preview to control responsiveness.
