11.02. Design Systems Strategy
It is as important to learn how design systems work as it is to know what implementation and evangelisation strategy we can apply.
11.02. Design Systems Strategy Index
01. Strategy Basics
We cannot implement a design system just for the sake of it. We have to align with stakeholders, make a plan and coordinate teams. A design system cannot be implemented by a single designer.
Design Systems: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Own
UXPin
UXPin
Level Beginner
Unknown
Design System Management - Updates and Communication
Billy Sweetman
Headway
Level Beginner
10/03/21
Productizing your design system
Mele Hamasaki & Jesse Spencer
Design Systems
Level Medium
Unknown
How to govern a design system that is continuously evolving
Wart Burggraaf
Design Systems
Level Medium
Unknown
02. Documentation
Documentation is 70% of a system design. A system has to be scalable, transparent and modest. Every person using it should always have the guidelines and user manual at hand.
Functional Specification Documents: your complete guide
Joseph Downs
Just in Mind
Level Beginner
19/08/20
Documentation—the Key to a Successful Design System
Jerome de Lafargue
Adobe
Level Beginner
17/03/20
Design Systems Gallery
Design System Repo
Design System Repo
Level Beginner
Unknown
Best Design System documentation sites
Backlight
Backlight
Level Beginner
Unknown
The best tools for documenting design systems
Sander Swierts & Floris Jansen
Hike One
Level Beginner
10/12/20
03. Control Versioning
A design system is one of the most living artefacts in existence. Knowing how to evolve it in an iterative and incremental way through version control will avoid conflict and chaos in the future.
Version Management for Design Systems
Patrick Fulton
SparkBox
Level Beginner
26/08/20
Version control best practices for design systems
Michael J. Fordham
Knapsack
Level Beginner
20/04/21
04. Naming & Design Tokens
Design systems can ultimately be titans of information. Learning how to refer to them is a beautiful task that will help us to create a common language with all stakeholders, developers and product designers.
Best practices for design system naming conventions
Shayna Hodkin
InVision
Level Beginner
30/08/19
Our Rules on Naming and Structuring a Design System
Luke Medlock
The Bang
Level Beginner
Unknown
Design tokens
Adobe Spectrum
Adobe
Level Beginner
Unknown
A guide to design tokens
Yana Ballantyne
Adobe
Level Beginner
22/06/21
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