Web development and design teams can improve efficiency, scalability and innovation by maintaining a consistent approach and defining standards in their processes. Design systems have emerged as a tool that can help organizations achieve this. A design system is a collection of reusable components, guided by clear standards, that can be assembled together to build digital products.
Creating a library of components and assets that can be used by design, user experience and front-end code will allow designers to focus on solving real problems instead of determining which version of a button to use, user experience specialists to focus on users’ needs instead of recreating different design elements and developers to streamline development work through reusing code for UI components.
Establishing a design system for an organization has the additional benefits of unifying a brand across multiple products and/or platforms, providing a cohesive user experience, and improving quality, consistency and accessibility.
This session will cover the steps of building a design system, specifying lessons learned to help support the work of others trying to do so.