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Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower

Successful design systems can and should move more slowly than the products they support—but a deliberate pace doesn’t have to create bottlenecks. Josh Clark shows how to reconcile the needs and speeds of product versus design system.
Juggler
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The Design System Ecosystem

Brad Frost explores the landscape of a mature, end-to-end design system for big, complex organizations. Discover all the moving pieces and how they hang together.
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Is Atomic Design Dead?

Brad Frost explores today’s design system ecosystem and peeks into the exciting future of design systems. (Spoiler: Atomic Design is going stronger than ever, thank you very much.)
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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.
Brad Frost, Josh Clark, and Dan Mall roundtable discussion
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Design Systems: Mastering Design at Scale

In this InVision video series, Brad Frost, Dan Mall, and Josh Clark share their know-how to help you build and use a design system.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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