Into Design Systems Weekly 💥 - Issue #5

Hey there, here are my weekly favorites from the #DesignSystem🪐space:

10 Auto-Layout Tips in Figma. Take your knowledge of auto-layout to the next level — uxdesign.cc The more you become familiar with the shortcuts for auto-layout, the quicker they’ll quickly become second nature. Save time by copying the styling of any auto layout container by using OPTION + CMD…

Best practices: How to structure your files in Figma — lariniehl-888.medium.com Figma has slowly become the most popular Design Software choice especially for large and/or mostly remote Design teams (so the vast majority). Its features support sketching, iterating and whiteboard…

Into Design Systems - Online Conference #3 Tickets, Mon, May 9, 2022 at 3:30 PM | Eventbrite — www.eventbrite.de Eventbrite - Design Friends Community presents Into Design Systems - Online Conference #3 - Monday, May 9, 2022 | Wednesday, May 11, 2022 - Find event and ticket information.

Figma - Variant Organiser | Keep your variants tidy with Variant Organiser — www.figma.com Keep your variants tidy with Variant Organiser Variant Organiser automatically arranges variants in a grid and creates property labels. How to run Variant Organiser Variant Organiser is keyboard operated: → Select a main component with variants. → Type ⌘ + / to open Figma’s quick actions sear...

The ABCD of Systems Thinking: A simple guide for design system teams — medium.com The first time I heard about systems thinking was back in 2017 when my team and I started building a more complex library of components to serve developers when they updated our product. That first…

Design Systems Hackathon — www.dshackathon.de Let's meet to learn, hack and build plugins & tools for Design Systems.

10 Figma best practices every new designer needs to know asap : FigmaDesign I put together a design project for my beginner Figma students and noticed some key best practices that came up frequently. Thought I'd share them...

3 Good Reasons to Dissect your Component's Anatomy — designsystemcentral.com Naming things is hard, and having everyone agree on a shared language is even harder. Discussions can be very messy when the thing everyone calls a spinner is

How we improved our design system delivery — medium.com Our journey on understanding how to build out a Design System has had many twists and turns. Through each learning, we have continuously reviewed, refined and streamlined how we work to provide…

Compare the Market’s Design System — medium.com An insight into Compare the Market’s design system, being the first fully dedicated design resource managing close to 3,000 components, and moving from Sketch/InVision to Figma/ZeroHeight. In the…

Figma - Makers • From Figma to Site with one click. Fully Responsive. — www.figma.com From Figma to Site with one click. Fully Responsive. Click a button and publish your design to a custom domain. Demo Here's a quick demo of the Makers Plugin in action. How it works I want to say it as early as possible: you have to design using our built-in components. I know, I know, you hav...

2021 Design Tools Survey | UX Tools — uxtools.co Find your next tool from the responses of thousands of designers around the world.