Translating Design Principles into Scalable Code

A real-life roadmap for building a design system — Pt I

Kim Hart
JW Player Engineering
7 min readAug 31, 2020

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Welcome to the first installment of a 3-part series outlining how JW Player’s small team of front-end & design nerds leveraged a homegrown design system and web component library to modernize our suite of products.

If you’re new to this realm, I encourage you to start with some prerequisite material like Emma Bostian’s Design Systems Foundations to get up-to-speed.

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Kim Hart
JW Player Engineering

Front-end engineer | design enthusiast | ISFJ | west coast kid | Brooklyn, NY