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Direct link to the article Build, Ship, & Maintain Design Systems with Backlight
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Build, Ship, & Maintain Design Systems with Backlight

Design systems are an entire job these days. Agencies are hired to create them. In-house teams are formed to handle them, shipping them so that other teams can use them and helping ensure they do. Design systems aren’t a fad, …

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Direct link to the article How Do You Handle Component Spacing in a Design System?
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How Do You Handle Component Spacing in a Design System?

Say you’ve got a <Card /> component. It’s highly likely it shouldn’t be butted right up against any other components with no spacing around it. That’s true for… pretty much every component. So, how do you handle component spacing in …

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Chris Coyier on Jan 25, 2022 (Updated on Jan 27, 2022)
Direct link to the article Yes, Design Systems Do Improve Developer Efficiency and Design Consistency
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Yes, Design Systems Do Improve Developer Efficiency and Design Consistency

One of the toughest things about being someone who cares deeply about design systems is making the case for a dedicated design system. Folks in leadership will often ask you to prove the value of it. Why should we care …

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Robin Rendle on Nov 5, 2021
Direct link to the article Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage
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Different Degrees of Custom Property Usage

One way to work with Custom Properties is to think of them as design tokens. Colors, spacings, fonts, and whatnot. You set them at the root of the page and use them throughout your CSS. Very useful, and the classic …

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Chris Coyier on Oct 14, 2021
Direct link to the article 2021 Design Systems (Survey/Courses)
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2021 Design Systems (Survey/Courses)

My friends at Sparkbox are doing a survey on design systems, as they do each year. Go ahead and fill it out if you please. Here are the results from last year. In both 2019 and 2020, the vibe was …

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Chris Coyier on May 13, 2021
Direct link to the article Where the World Wide Web Shines
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Where the World Wide Web Shines

Here’s a fabulous post by Vitaly Friedman that looks at how to make accessible front-end components and what problems there are today when it comes to building them.…

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Robin Rendle on Mar 31, 2021
Direct link to the article People Problems
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People Problems

Just the other day, Jeremy Keith wrote that problems with performance work isn’t only a matter of optimization and fixing code, but also tackling people problems:

It struck me that there’s a continuum of performance challenges. On one end

…
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Robin Rendle on Oct 16, 2020
Direct link to the article The Best Design System Tool is Slack
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The Best Design System Tool is Slack

There’s a series of questions I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember. The questions have to do with design systems work: Where should we document things? Do we make a separate app? Do we use a third-party …

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Robin Rendle on Jun 3, 2020 (Updated on Jun 7, 2020)
Direct link to the article How to build a bad design system
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How to build a bad design system

I didn’t realize this until it was far too late, but one of the biggest mistakes that’s made on a design systems team is a common mismanagement issue: there are too many people in a meeting and they have too …

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Robin Rendle on Mar 31, 2020
Direct link to the article Sass !default and themeable design systems
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Sass !default and themeable design systems

This is a great blog post from Brad Frost where he walks us through an interesting example. Let’s say we’re making a theme and we have some Sass like this:

.c-text-input {
  background-color: $form-background-color;
  padding: 10px
}
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Robin Rendle on Mar 11, 2020
Direct link to the article Making Room for Variation
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Making Room for Variation

Say you have a design system and you’re having a moment where it doesn’t have what you need. You need to diverge and create something new. Yesenia Perez-Cruz categorizes these moments from essentially ooops to niiice:

There are three

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Chris Coyier on Dec 30, 2019
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