How can we focus less on artefacts in design systems, and work consciously to build inclusive design systems that put people at their heart?

System.css is a CSS library for building interfaces that resemble Apple's System OS which ran from 1984-1991. Design-wise, not much really changed from System 1 to System 6; however this library is based on System 6 as it was the final monochrome version of MacOS.

It’s true that design systems serving products that then grow the system is a virtuous cycle. But how does a team start the cycle? It's a classic chicken/egg problem. Is one place better to start than the other? pic.twitter.com/6CwPs81t8p— Dan Mall (@danmall) December 3, 2021

A collection of UX frameworks for creating beautiful, cross-platform apps that share code, design, and interaction behavior.

We often talk about design systems as singular entities. "The design system saves time and increases quality." "Oh, the design system provides that." "Update to the latest version of the design system." The reality is that a design system is a multi-faceted layer cake, and also operates as part of o

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.

Complete guide to build scalable, harmonious color system

Your design system is not a project.

UI & UX best practices from Google’s design system documentation.

Behind the scenes of our new design system (Airbnb)

How rethinking the Airbnb app changed the way we approach design

Hayley Hughes, UX Manager working on the Polaris Design System at Shopify discusses the importance of context in working on design systems.

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

Build beautiful, usable products faster. Material Design is an adaptable system—backed by open-source code—that helps teams build high quality digital experiences.

Fluent brings the fundamentals of principled design, innovation in technology, and customer needs together as one. It’s a collective approach to creating simplicity and coherence through a shared, open design system across platforms.

Fluent brings the fundamentals of principled design, innovation in technology, and customer needs together as one. It’s a collective approach to creating simplicity and coherence through a shared, open design system across platforms. Open ecosystem, open design system.

A guide to how we designed and built our design system in 8 steps