Design System

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Design System Goal

  • Single point of reference for how things should look & behave
     
  • Prevent inconsistent user experience within a product and across products in an organization.

Design System Goal

​documenting the standards actually makes it easier for people to do their jobs, freeing them up from focusing on fiddly interface components to think more broadly about the whole user experience

Who would benefit from having design system?

External Partner

Developer

UX Designer

It communicates design concepts in a way that minimizes the work everyone has to do to make them real

Design System Benefits

  • Clearly Branded Experience
  • Consistent Interface
  • Better Communication With More Collaboration
    • Consider overall design impact
    • Centralized reference for the team
    • Faster onboarding for new team member
  • Reusable Pattern & Code 
  • Shorter time to market
    • Repetitive work is reduced through the usage of component library

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How to Implement?

Standardlize Workflow

Create Reusable Patterns

Create Component Library

Create Documentation

Formulate UX Guidelines

Examples

Design System

Style Guide

  • How to communicate
  • Content
  • Branding
  • Voice & Tone
  • How it should look in digital products
  • Architecture
  • Layout
  • Code Example

DEMO

Design System Examples

DEMO

OUR CURRENT Design System

DEMO

Storybook Placeholders

Designer & Developer Workflow

Action Plan

  • Scope of Design System 
  • Owner of the project
  • Resource of the project
  • Roadmap & Timeline

Design System

By Kevin C.

Design System

In this talk, we will walk through the overview of Design System, its benefits as well as how it can be implemented and incorporated in the Designer and Developer workflow. I will also show you the examples of the Design System in the industry and our current progress to date with proposals for the next steps.

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