When I encounter inexperienced designers, there’s one thing that always sticks out about the way they think. Or more specifically, the way they don’t think. They don’t think of every design project…

As interaction designers on Red Hat's User Experience (UX) Design and Ansible product teams, we worked for about six months to build a logo family with the Ansible community. This journey started even earlier when a project manager asked us for a "quick and easy" logo for a slide deck. After gathering a few requirements, we presented a logo to the stakeholders within a few days and without much need for iteration. A few months later, another stakeholder decided they would also benefit from having imagery for their materials, so we repeated the process.

Understand Atomic Design with Pace Layering to assist Design Systems’ construction and maintenance

Ideas for transitioning visual design into maintainable HTML & CSS

Use the design system you already have Extract design tokens from websites and use them in code and in your design tool.

Want to learn how to create a UI system from scratch? I’m going to take you through the process of making one. I’m sure you guys will learn something new! Let’s dive right in.