Description
Book SynopsisLearn how to build a design system framed within the context of your specific business needs. This book guides you through the process of defining a design language that can be understood across teams, while also establishing communication strategies for how to sell your system to key stakeholders and other contributors.
With a defined set of components and guidelines, designers can focus their efforts on solving user needs rather than recreating elements and reinventing solutions. You''ll learn how to use an interface inventory to surface inconsistencies and inefficient solutions, as well as how to establish a component library by documenting existing patterns and creating new ones. You''ll also see how the creation of self-documenting styles and components will streamline your UX process.
Building Design Systems provides critical insights into how to set up a design system within your organization, measure the effectiveness of that system, and maintain i
Table of Contents
1. The Rise of Design Systems
2. Introducing Design Systems
3. Selling the System
4. Design as a Language
5. Implementing Your System
6. Measure and Maintain
7. A GitLab Case Study
8. Design Systems as a Resource
