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exxonmobil
Scaling Great Design Across a Fortune 10 Company
Big Medium crafted a design system to help one of the world’s biggest companies scale great design across hundreds of apps.
process
Only One Deliverable Matters
Too much design effort goes into artifacts that are not part of the working software. There’s a better way to work.
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The Most Exciting Design Systems Are Boring
Design systems should solve problems that designers confront over and over again, so that they can turn to more interesting challenges.
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Design Tools Are Running Out of Track
Our design tools are fundamentally disconnected from the realities and constraints of working software—which means that designers are, too.
podcast
The Design System and Your Future Self
On the Style Guide podcast, Josh Clark shares how design systems are a kindness to your future self—and can make sense of emerging interactions, too.
voice
Uncovering Voice UI Design Patterns
Design consultancy Cooper is sharing their emerging best practices for voice interfaces.
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A Working Pattern Library
Ethan Marcotte on tailoring a pattern library to the habits of the people who use it.
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On Design Systems: Dan Mall of Superfriendly
Dan shares insights about building design systems like true products.
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The Workshop and the Storefront
Brad Frost’s metaphor for pattern libraries and style guides help delineate where design-system work should happen.
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“The Style Guide Guide”
Brad Frost released an open-source starter kit for creating a design system’s style guide.
process
How to Design New Information Environments That Don’t Suck
The worst thing you can do is try to design for every assumed outcome and edge case. Start sturdy and simple.
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Managing Technology-Agnostic Design Systems
Brad Frost tackles the challenge of building a design system that works across different tech frameworks.
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The Full Stack Design System
Intercom’s Emmet Connolly shares terrific thoughts about building holistic design systems but glosses over some key aspects of Atomic Design process.
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Design Systems: Pilots & Scorecards
Dan Mall shares techniques for selecting pilot projects to develop and prove out design decisions for large-scale design systems.
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A History of Patterns in User Experience Design
Erin Malone traces the history of design systems and pattern libraries over the past 40 years.
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Style Guide Audience
Brad Frost underscores the value in helping design systems embrace the whole organization.
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Atomic Design
Brad Frost just published his marvelous book Atomic Design, and it was my honor to pen the foreword with our friend and collaborator Dan Mall.