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How to avoid 5 of the most common design system mistakes
Abstract
– 12 February 2020
Leaders from Pinterest, Microsoft, Alaska Airlines, Clearleft, and more lay their best advice on the table.
Four ways design systems can promote accessibility – and what they can’t do
24Ways
– 23 December 2019
Design systems help us to make our products consistent, and to make sure we’re creating them in the most efficient way possible. They also help us to ensure our products are designed and built to a high quality; that they’re not only consistent in appearance, and efficiently-built, but that they are good. And good design means accessible design.
What are design principles?
Interaction Design Foundation
– 19 December 2019
Design principles are widely applicable laws, guidelines, biases and design considerations which designers apply with discretion. Professionals from many disciplines—e.g., behavioral science, sociology, physics and ergonomics—provided the foundation for design principles via their accumulated knowledge and experience.
Reimagining design systems at Spotify
Spotify Design
– 16 December 2019
How we build design systems that fit our culture of autonomy.
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