Design System Resources and Links

Here are some useful articles and websites I recommend if you’re about to start or work on your own design system.

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3 min readMay 19, 2019

Design Systems Series

These Resources and Links are the last Part of something bigger:
Part I → 5 Pillars of a Design System
Part II → Design System Checklist
Part III → Design System Resources and Links

Starting a Design System

Design System Interview Questions

Successful design systems are finely tuned to the organization they serve. At the beginning of every client design…

bradfrost.com

Design System Checklist

I just started to create another design system for a client and there are some conceptual questions I need to first…

medium.com

Starting a Design System

Questions you should answer before you get started

uxdesign.cc

Selling a Design System at Your Company

Finding common pain, articulating value and selling the vision

uxdesign.cc

Building successful design systems with a well integrated research

A guide for using research when (or before) starting to build a design system.

publication.design.systems

In-Depth Information

Design Systems

A resource for learning, creating and evangelizing design systems.

A comprehensive guide to design systems | Inside Design Blog

Companies like Airbnb, Uber, and IBM have changed the ways they design digital products by incorporating their own…

Invision — Design Systems Handbook

A design system unites product teams around a common visual language. In this book, learn how you can create a design…

Everything you need to know about Design Systems

uxdesign.cc

Design Systems and Agility (Part 1 of 2)

Extended from my recent talk at UX Australia Conference #UX2018

medium.com

Case Studies and Design Systems

Design systems — In the wild

Advice from BEKK on how we have made design systems work for our clients.

uxdesign.cc

Adele - Design Systems and Pattern Libraries Repository

Dozens of design systems and pattern libraries thoroughly analyzed. Learn, enjoy, contribute!

adele.uxpin.com

Design Systems Repo

This is not a comprehensive list of every design system that I have come across. Rather, it's a collection of ones that…

designsystemsrepo.com

Examples

A collaborative collection of resources for creating Front-End Style Guides and Pattern Libraries

styleguides.io

Carbon Design System

Carbon is the design system for IBM web and product. It is a series of individual styles, components, and guidelines…

www.carbondesignsystem.com

Shopify Polaris

Our style guide helps us collaborate across disciplines to build a great experience for all of Shopify's merchants. It…

polaris.shopify.com

Lightning Design System

The Lightning Design System enables you to build rich enterprise experiences and custom applications with the patterns…

lightningdesignsystem.com

Veritas Design System

A very well built and documented Design System from Udacity. Check out their General Section, where they share some interesting insights, eg. how their testing works.

veritas.udacity.design

AirBnB — Building a Visual Language

Behind the scenes of our new design system This article is part of a series on our new Design Language System. Karri…

Scaling

Design Systems Support

Operating a Workflow to Resolve Designer and Developer Needs

medium.com

What I have learned from running a design system at scale

Today design system is a very popular toolkit for companies to unify their user experience of the software ecosystem…

blog.prototypr.io

Lessons learned building a design system at scale

How we built the Booking Design System and how you can get a head start building yours.

booking.design

Dealing with Dependencies Inside Design Systems

Decomposing Features to Master Change Up the Chain

medium.com

Design System Tiers

Time To Mature Systems To Support Levels of Work

medium.com

Social

Design Systems Slack

A community for design systems practitioners.

design.systems

Design Systems Jobs

Jobs for the design systems community!

designsystems.seeker.company

Style Guide Podcast

A collaborative collection of resources for creating Front-End Style Guides and Pattern Libraries

styleguides.io

dbanksdesign/Design-Systems-Resources

Contribute to dbanksdesign/Design-Systems-Resources development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Nathan Curtis (@nathanacurtis) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Nathan Curtis (@nathanacurtis). @eightshapes working design systems. Wrote @components. Supports…

twitter.com

crazy witch asian (@jina) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from crazy witch asian (@jina). Design System Advocate. Advisor. Founder @Clarity_Conf @SF_DSC…

twitter.com

Design System Resources and Links

Here are some useful articles and websites I recommend if you’re about to start or work on your own design system.

Design Systems Series

Starting a Design System

Design System Interview Questions

Successful design systems are finely tuned to the organization they serve. At the beginning of every client design…

Design System Checklist

I just started to create another design system for a client and there are some conceptual questions I need to first…

Starting a Design System

Questions you should answer before you get started

Selling a Design System at Your Company

Finding common pain, articulating value and selling the vision

Building successful design systems with a well integrated research

A guide for using research when (or before) starting to build a design system.

In-Depth Information

Design Systems

A resource for learning, creating and evangelizing design systems.

A comprehensive guide to design systems | Inside Design Blog

Companies like Airbnb, Uber, and IBM have changed the ways they design digital products by incorporating their own…

Invision — Design Systems Handbook

A design system unites product teams around a common visual language. In this book, learn how you can create a design…

Everything you need to know about Design Systems

Design Systems and Agility (Part 1 of 2)

Extended from my recent talk at UX Australia Conference #UX2018

Case Studies and Design Systems

Design systems — In the wild

Advice from BEKK on how we have made design systems work for our clients.

Adele - Design Systems and Pattern Libraries Repository

Dozens of design systems and pattern libraries thoroughly analyzed. Learn, enjoy, contribute!

Design Systems Repo

This is not a comprehensive list of every design system that I have come across. Rather, it's a collection of ones that…

Examples

A collaborative collection of resources for creating Front-End Style Guides and Pattern Libraries

Carbon Design System

Carbon is the design system for IBM web and product. It is a series of individual styles, components, and guidelines…

Shopify Polaris

Our style guide helps us collaborate across disciplines to build a great experience for all of Shopify's merchants. It…

Lightning Design System

The Lightning Design System enables you to build rich enterprise experiences and custom applications with the patterns…

Veritas Design System

A very well built and documented Design System from Udacity. Check out their General Section, where they share some interesting insights, eg. how their testing works.

AirBnB — Building a Visual Language

Behind the scenes of our new design system This article is part of a series on our new Design Language System. Karri…

Scaling

Design Systems Support

Operating a Workflow to Resolve Designer and Developer Needs

What I have learned from running a design system at scale

Today design system is a very popular toolkit for companies to unify their user experience of the software ecosystem…

Lessons learned building a design system at scale

How we built the Booking Design System and how you can get a head start building yours.

Dealing with Dependencies Inside Design Systems

Decomposing Features to Master Change Up the Chain

Design System Tiers

Time To Mature Systems To Support Levels of Work

Social

Design Systems Slack

A community for design systems practitioners.

Design Systems Jobs

Jobs for the design systems community!

Style Guide Podcast

A collaborative collection of resources for creating Front-End Style Guides and Pattern Libraries

dbanksdesign/Design-Systems-Resources

Contribute to dbanksdesign/Design-Systems-Resources development by creating an account on GitHub.

Nathan Curtis (@nathanacurtis) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from Nathan Curtis (@nathanacurtis). @eightshapes working design systems. Wrote @components. Supports…

crazy witch asian (@jina) | Twitter

The latest Tweets from crazy witch asian (@jina). Design System Advocate. Advisor. Founder @Clarity_Conf @SF_DSC…

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Written by Tim Schoch