SOURCE Guides

DESIGN SYSTEMS

Guide #025: How to prepare your design system for external contributions

For centralized design system teams, it is critical to create a contribution model so that external contributors can suggest ideas to be upstreamed...

DESIGN SYSTEMS

Guide #012: How a content strategist can help scale a design system

As a design system matures, precision in communication and terminology will become more and more important.

DESIGN SYSTEMS

Guide #011: How to encourage your organization to build and adopt a design system

Treat your design system like an internal product. Appoint a point person who can act as the product owner and primary evangelist.

DESIGN SYSTEMS

Guide #006: How to start a code-first Design System

Think reusability and shareability outside of your immediate projects. Try not to overextend yourself by building every use case.

DESIGN SYSTEMS

Guide #00B: How to build a Design System that scales across brands

Building a Design System to scale across brands requires flexibility, but also consistency. Get good at communicating regularly with DS users.