Have a messy front-end in your newly upgraded Drupal website? Keep an existing theme from a previous site because it was too much of a hassle to get the approvals through in time? Often with projects and contracts there is a decent amount of turn over with staff. Wouldn't it be nice if we could create a blueprint that would allow new developers quickly get up to speed and understand the original intention of a website's design?
A modern approach to tackling this problem is to leverage the idea of a living style guide and pattern library. Using this system will allow you to preview design changes outside of your website, reducing risk without a great sacrifice to the speed of delivery. When combined with visual regression tools, we can add a powerful and safe workflow to a website in any phase of its life cycle.
In this talk I will show you how to introduce a living style guide and pattern library to your Drupal site and why you should. Using Pattern Lab and other open source tools, we can create a workflow that will help get your design updates under control and give you the confidence to handle everything from small updates to full scale redesigns.