Into Design Systems Weekly - Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens

Hey Design System Friend, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystems🪐space:

Improving Accessibility with Design Tokens — solomon.io How to improve accessibility with design tokens. By using tokens to enable theming, we can begin to build themes for our colorblind customers.

A beginner’s guide to Design Tokens — uxdesign.cc Here you’ll learn the basics of what design tokens are, how they’re used, their benefits, and some tools and resources that can help. But first, let’s start with a quick story. You’re a product…

An Introduction to Constraint Based Design Systems — www.colepeters.dev

Effective designs optimize for constraints. These constraints are not just useful, they are critical: a beautiful building not designed for the constraints of tectonic movement and climate variability will collapse, and products not designed for the myriad constraints of the web will never amass a critical user base.

What do design system product managers do? — www.knapsack.cloud Maya Hampton, Product Manager of REI's design system Cedar, wrote a follow-up to her episode of the Design Systems Podcast. Read on to discover what the product manager of a leading design system does and how she makes an impact.

Spacing solved — blog.damato.design I've been on a journey to understand the way we think of space within a digital interface and I think I've reached a point of understanding that might help shift traditional approaches to something more systematic.

On Design System Support. Having a Support Mindset — alanbsmith.medium.com We spend a lot of time supporting teams, and I think it’s one of our design system’s biggest strengths. Specific processes often are tied up in institutional contexts that don’t translate well, but…

I grew from a designer to a design manager in 1.5 years, and this is what I learned. — medium.com A few months after I joined 99.co, our design lead left, and we were two junior/mid level designers who had to hold up the entire design team across three product squads in a small startup. I soon…

The Future of Design System Documentation — medium.com We're shaping the future of design system documentation with Notion. Learn the behind-the-scenes and get a sneak peek of what's next.

Design System Videos:

Better Components through spec - Taylor Cashdan live at Into Design Systems Conference — www.youtube.com #DesignSystems #DesignSystemDocumentation #Figma #figmatutorial 👋🏻 Missed the conference?22 unique Design System 🎬 Recordings now on sale: https://www.int...

How I use Notion for design system documentation — www.youtube.com This is a pre-finished version of the design system documentation that I have started for Compass of Design.This is a response to Susan Zhuang's question on ...

Design System Podcasts:

Ep 16: Automation by Design System Office Hours — anchor.fm Davy talks with PJ about various ways of automating design system and design ops tasks to help our day-to-day lives as worker-bees easier. Episode Transcripts

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