Designing Design Systems Like Products
What You’ll Learn
- What a design system is (and isn’t)
- How to rely on other people and teams throughout your design system’s lifecycle
- How to share
Design Systems Are For People
What You’ll Learn
- Build a community culture that empowers teams to make change, work productively, and creatively to solve problems
- Use design principles to inform your design system, lead design critiques, and drive decisions
- Explore materials (documentation) and non-materials (shared language and nomenclature) that encompass a design system
- Why shared ownership of your design system is critical to creating a transparent, collaborative, and inclusive community
Motion In Design Systems: Animation, Style Guides, and the Design Process
What You’ll Learn
- Understand ways to improve communication around your interface animations
- Get available prototyping tools, and how to assess their pros and cons
- Learn how to articulate the goal or problem that your prototype addresses
Design Tokens: Scaling Design with a Single Source of Truth
What You’ll Learn
- Discover the power of design tokens
- Create and maintain effective design tokens
- Communicate design tokens to designers and developers
And You Thought Designing Buttons Was Easy
What You’ll Learn
- Create a foundation of visual style to weave throughout the components you build and maintain
- Develop an enduring design system by thoughtfully considering color, space, and typography
- Propagate design decisions across a portfolio of products and platforms via tokens
Design Systems: From Project Done to Product Sustained
What You’ll Learn
- Manage and support a sustainable design system
- Align team interests across products
- Inspire designers to share their work
A Tour of Today’s Online Style Guides
What You’ll Learn
- Why examples are important and the best places to find inspiration for your style guide
- How to create style guides even when you don’t have time
- How to see your style guide with a critical eye for the purpose of fine-tuning
- How to understand what your organization needs from your style guide
The Why and How of Successful Style Guides
What You’ll Learn
- Make a case for style guides
- Explore the various flavors of style guides
- Use Atomic Design to craft a pattern library
- Safeguard against style-guide apathy and abandonment
Working With Atomic Design
What You’ll Learn
- Identify the basic design elements that make up your website
- Use these elements to create smart, scalable, maintainable designs
- Convince everyone back at the office to ditch ad-hoc design and embrace a pattern-based workflow
- Unite disparate teams and departments to build designs that deliver a consistent experience across multiple platforms
Cohesive Design Systems for Enterprise
What You’ll Learn
- Inspire designers to unite and share their work
- Unify your design community within your organization
- Illustrate how products relate & work together