Do you have a design system?
flo merian
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Happy Tuesday! ☀️
I stumbled upon this AMA session with @syswarren and enjoyed learning how the design team works at Product Hunt:
> "We have a shared UI library where you can find our most common components, as well as the pieces that make the components"
How about you? do you use a design system?
Edit: According to Nielsen Norman Group, a design system is:
> “A set of standards to manage design at scale by reducing redundancy while creating a shared language and visual consistency across different pages and channels.”
Basically, it’s a set of design tokens and UI components used by product design teams to work with consistency at scale.
I'm eager to read your comments on this!
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Michael Andreuzza@michael_andreuzza
I used to, then I decided to build with different styles to show skills...and maybe one day get hired....
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@michael_andreuzza Interesting! Thanks for sharing, Michael! Did you use a documentation tool back then?
In a startup, we use Figma🎨🖌️
@new_user_11620223ff4de5436 Thanks, Denis! Love Figma, too 💜
Did you start your design system from scratch or from a template? Do you document it in an external tool?
@new_user_11620223ff4de5436 Interesting! Out of curiosity -- Which libraries/frameworks do you use for styling?
wym by design system?
@richw Hi Rich 👋
Thanks for asking!
According to Nielsen Norman Group, a design system is:
> “a set of standards to manage design at scale by reducing redundancy while creating a shared language and visual consistency across different pages and channels.”
Basically, it’s a set of templates and UI components used by product design teams to work with consistency at scale.
If you want to dig into the topic, you should read Atomic Design by Brad Frost ✌️
Hope it helps!
We use MUI and it is really powerful, but we are exploring other libraries too.
I won't build a design system till we find product market fit.