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Direct link to the article Design Systems and Portfolios
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Design Systems and Portfolios

In my experience working with design systems, I’ve found that I have to sacrifice my portfolio to do it well. Unlike a lot of other design work where it’s relatively easy to present Dribbble-worthy interfaces and designs, I fear that …

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Robin Rendle on Mar 15, 2019 (Updated on Mar 17, 2019)
Direct link to the article The Elements of UI Engineering
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The Elements of UI Engineering

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I really enjoyed this post by Dan Abramov. He defines his work as a UI engineer and I especially like what he writes about his learning experience:

My biggest learning breakthroughs weren’t about a particular technology. Rather, I learned the

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Jan 4, 2019
Direct link to the article Dealing with Dependencies Inside Design Systems
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Dealing with Dependencies Inside Design Systems

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Dependencies in JavaScript are pretty straightforward. I can’t write library.doThing() unless library exists. If library changes in some fundamental way, things break and hopefully our tests catch it.

Dependencies in CSS can be a bit more abstract. Robin just wrote …

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Oct 19, 2018
Direct link to the article Creating the “Perfect” CSS System
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Creating the “Perfect” CSS System

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My pal Lindsay Grizzard wrote about creating a CSS system that works across an organization and all of the things to keep in mind when starting a new project:

Getting other developers and designers to use the standardized rules is

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Aug 15, 2018
Direct link to the article Developing a design environment
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Developing a design environment

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Jules Forrest discusses some of the work that her team at Credit Karma has been up to when it comes to design systems. Jules writes:

…in most engineering organizations, you spend your whole first day setting up your development environment

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Shared by Robin Rendle on May 28, 2018
Direct link to the article designsystems.com
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designsystems.com

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The team at Figma has created a new resource for “learning, creating and evangelizing design systems” called Design Systems that already has a good collection of interviews and articles by some folks thinking about these things.

I particularly liked Jeroen …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on May 15, 2018 (Updated on Jun 22, 2021)
Direct link to the article Managing Heading Levels In Design Systems
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Managing Heading Levels In Design Systems

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Heydon Pickering looks into how to give a React component a certain heading (like <h1></h1>, <h2></h2>, etc.) depending on its context and thereby ensure that the DOM is still perfectly accessible for screen readers. Why is using the …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on May 3, 2018
Direct link to the article Creating Themeable Design Systems
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Creating Themeable Design Systems

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Brad frost picks up the ongoing conversation about design systems. Where many posts seem to center on how to create one and how to enforce it, the big takeaway here is that design systems are not synonymous with constraints. They’re …

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Shared by Geoff Graham on Apr 5, 2018
Direct link to the article Vue Design System
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Vue Design System

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We talk a lot about Vue around here, including some practical applications of it, but haven’t gotten deep into designing for it. In this post, Viljami Salminen describes his Vue design process and the thinking that led him to build …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Mar 30, 2018
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