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Direct link to the article Two Lessons I Learned From Making React Components
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Two Lessons I Learned From Making React Components

Here’s a couple of lessons I’ve learned about how not to build React components. These are things I’ve come across over the past couple of months and thought they might be of interest to you if you’re working on a …

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Robin Rendle on Dec 18, 2019
Direct link to the article Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems
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Design APIs: The Evolution of Design Systems

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A clever idea from Matthew Ström:

[…] design APIs don’t seem like a stretch of the imagination. An API-driven approach is the natural extension of the work currently being done on design systems, including tokens and standardization projects.

If you …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Dec 17, 2019
Direct link to the article Designing accessible color systems
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Designing accessible color systems

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The team at Stripe explores how they’re refining their color palette to make it more accessible and legible for users across all their products and interfaces. Not only that but the team built a wonderful and yet entirely bonkers app …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Oct 21, 2019
Direct link to the article Laying the Foundations
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Laying the Foundations

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Here’s a new book by Andrew Couldwell all about design systems and I’m looking forward to reading the book because it looks like his experience will offer a bunch of insightful thoughts and advice.…

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Oct 18, 2019
Direct link to the article A Codebase and a Community
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A Codebase and a Community

I woke up one morning and realized that I had it all wrong. I discovered that code and design are unable to solve every problem on a design systems team, even if many problems can be solved by coding and …

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Robin Rendle on Sep 27, 2019
Direct link to the article Getting design system customization just right
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Getting design system customization just right

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I had a little rant in me a few months ago about design systems: “Who Are Design Systems For?” My main point was that there are so many public and open source ones out there that choosing one can feel …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Jul 29, 2019
Direct link to the article The Guardian digital design system
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The Guardian digital design system

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Here’s a fascinating look at The Guardian’s design system with a step-by-step breakdown of what’s gone into it and what options are available to designers and developers. It shows us how the team treats colors, typography, layouts, and visual cues …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Jul 29, 2019
Direct link to the article Drop caps & design systems
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Drop caps & design systems

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Ethan Marcotte has written up his process for how to make drop caps accessible for screen readers and browsers alike. All of that is very interesting and I’m sure I’ll use a technique like this in the near future, but …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Jun 19, 2019
Direct link to the article A Practical Use Case for Vue Render Functions: Building a Design System Typography Grid
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A Practical Use Case for Vue Render Functions: Building a Design System Typography Grid

This post covers how I built a typography grid for a design system using Vue render functions. Here’s the demo and the code. I used render functions because they allow you to create HTML with a greater level …

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Salomone Baquis on May 30, 2019 (Updated on May 31, 2019)
Direct link to the article Who Are Design Systems For?
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Who Are Design Systems For?

Specific design systems, I mean. Design systems, as a concept, are something just about any site can benefit from.

A lot of hype goes into design systems these days. Just the other day, an organization’s published their design system publicly …

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Chris Coyier on Apr 23, 2019 (Updated on Apr 25, 2019)
Direct link to the article Revisiting the Rendering Tier
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Revisiting the Rendering Tier

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Have you ever created a well-intentioned, thoughtful design system only to watch it grow into an ever-increasing and scary codebase? I’ve been working in sort of the opposite direction, inheriting the scary codebase and trying to create a thoughtful …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Apr 5, 2019
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