design system

Articles

Setting Up a Design System

Setting Up a Design System

Learn how to customize and use Sketch best practices as a solid design system that will save you hundreds of hours on the next project.

Sketch Tools for Managing a Design System

Sketch Tools for Managing a Design System

List of sketch app extensions for organizing and maintaining a user interface collection.

Plasma design system - Creating and documenting a product design system

Plasma design system - Creating and documenting a product design system

This case study aims to chronicle how we created a design system at WeWork. I’ll share insight into our process, product design, the tools we used to create and implement the system, and also how we document and share the system with our team.

Videos

How to build your design system, from the lead of Google Material

How to build your design system, from the lead of Google Material

Rich Fulcher leads Material Design and Engineering at Google. In this preview, he walks us through what's involved in building your own design system from the ground up.

Podcast

Creative Director Rachel Been on Material Design, new emoji, and the creative power of curiosity

Creative Director Rachel Been on Material Design, new emoji, and the creative power of curiosity

In this episode, Aidan speaks with Material Design Creative Director Rachel Been about her journey from photojournalism to design, the challenges of making a design system at scale, and what's most exciting about the latest emoji release.

Learn about design systems and digital tools from Firebase Interaction Designer Roman Nurik

Learn about design systems and digital tools from Firebase Interaction Designer Roman Nurik

In this episode, guest host Liam Spradlin speaks with Senior Interaction Designer Roman Nurik about the unique challenges of designing for developers, the best approach to building design tools, and Google's mobile development platform Firebase.

Tools

Sketch

Sketch

Sketch is a design toolkit built to help you create your best work — from your earliest ideas, through to final artwork.

Abstract

Abstract

Secure version control and design workflow management for modern design teams.

Books

Design Systems Handbook

Design Systems Handbook

A design system unites product teams around a common visual language. It reduces design debt, accelerates the design process, and builds bridges between teams working in concert to bring products to life. Learn how you can create your design system and help your team improve product quality while reducing design debt.