Into Design Systems Weekly - How to organize your Figma File, Design Tokens & more

Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystems🪐space:

July 18, 2022

Hey Friends, here are our weekly favorites from the #DesignSystems🪐space:

Learnings from migrating our design process to Figma and how we organized our work to improve collaboration — medium.com During the uncertainty-filled summer of 2020, our small design team was beginning to see from afar how Figma was strengthened as a tool not only for creating and prototyping interfaces but also as a…

🗓July, 19th - 7PM CEST - LIVE on zoom

Agenda:

7:00 PM - 7:15 PM -  Warm-up / Socializing 

7:15 PM - 8:15 PM - The Future of Design Tokens + LIVE Q&A, James Nash - J.P. Morgan & Member of Design Tokens W3C Community Group

8:15 PM - 9:30 PM - Design Tokens Rountable with our Design Tokens Experts:

Esther Cheran, Co-creator of Figma Tokens, Chief product @ start-up in stealth-mode

Adekunle Oduye, UX Engineering • Coach • International Speaker • Editor @DesignTokens • Co-host @CodeandPixelsFM

James Nash - J.P. Morgan & Member of Design Tokens W3C Community Group

Louis Chenais, Co-Founder & Chief Evangelist @ Specify

🎬 Full Video & 20 hours of Design System Content: https://www.intodesignsystems.com

The 3 types of design system deviation — shinytoyrobots.substack.com Virgil Abloh said that a 3% change to an object could be a new design. Desirable disruption in fashion, less so for your design system's success. Beware of the impact of "minor" deviations.

My thoughts on the new Figma Component Properties — uxdesign.cc Ok. So I’ll not be the first one here to draw your attention to the new features that Figma announced at Config2022. It was back in early May, after all. Figma launched around 15 new features at…

Building Workbench. How we created the Timeline component — medium.com The Design Systems team at Gusto has been working hard over the past three years to provide designers and engineers with a robust, extensive, and accessible design system called Workbench. But it…

How We’ve Organised Our Figma Files at Uptime — medium.com When I joined Uptime in late 2020, the product team consisted of seven engineers, two designers, one product manager, one product analyst, and one QA analyst. The needs of our team and our processes…

Podcast: The Future of Figma by Design Party — anchor.fm Antonija and Vitali are recording for the first time ever in the same room!  We are talking about the future of Figma, going into detail about what we like, dislike, and would like to see happen in the next years with our favorite tool for designing. Send us a message if you're listening on Spotify! Leave us a rating if possible — it helps reach more designers.

Creating custom table components — medium.com Tables are the bread and butter of data analytics applications. While at Tracer, a marketing data processing platform, I led the implementation of our updated design system that we nicknamed Emerald…

Upgrade your Design System in Figma — Part I — medium.com With newly released Figma features, your design system will get upgraded, closing the gap between design and development. In the recent event, Figma has released many features that can make your…

Building accessible Design Systems - Lukas Oppermann, Deutsche Telekom

My role as a Design Systems Manager at a growing SaaS Company — medium.com In 2016, I joined a small SaaS company as their first UI designer, second designer on the product team, and third designer across the whole company. As we’ve scaled up over the years, I’ve gone much…