Building Design Systems : Unify User Experiences Through a Shared Design Language

Learn 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 it over time. You will develop the skills needed to approach your design process systematically, ensuring that your design system achieves the purpose of your organization, your product, and your team. **What You'll Learn*** Develop communication strategies necessary to gain buy-in from key stakeholders and other teams * Establish principles based on your specific needs * Design, build, implement, and maintain a design system from the ground up * Measure the effectiveness of your system over time **Who This Book Is For** All teams, large and small, seeking to unify their design language through a cohesive design system and create buy-in for design thinking within their organization; UX, visual, and interaction designers, as well as product managers and front-end developers will benefit from a systematic approach to design. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii The Rise of Design Systems (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 1-11 Introducing Design Systems (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 13-23 Selling the System (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 25-50 Design As a Language (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 51-62 Implementing Your System (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 63-92 Measure and Maintain (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 93-109 A GitLab Case Study (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 111-131 Design Systems As a Resource (Sarrah Vesselov, Taurie Davis)....Pages 133-139 Back Matter ....Pages 141-144