List: design systems | Curated by Stefanie Fluin

Nov 7, 2024
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design systems
Pennylane Design
Transitioning to colour Tokens in Figma: A New Palette for PennylaneImagine you just chipped the paint in your kitchen and need to fix wall quickly. You open your cabinet to grab the corresponding paint…
Oct 30, 2024
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Oct 30, 2024
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Victor Nystad
Replacing variants with variables and modes in Figma
Oct 10, 2023
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Oct 10, 2023
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UX Collective
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Katie Cooper
How to create a color ramp used in design systemsWhether you’re a brand designer putting the finishing touches on a color palette or a product designer laying the foundational work for a…
Sep 27, 2023
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Sep 27, 2023
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Nate Baldwin
Creating a flexible design token taxonomy for Intuit’s Design SystemThis article covers how we evolved our tokens at Intuit to create a flexible taxonomy for a small but powerful set of semantic tokens.
Jun 20, 2023
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Jun 20, 2023
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Daniel Casado
Figma Token Engine: Quick StartPractical guide to configure and use the FTE
Mar 16, 2023
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Mar 16, 2023
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Rob Cleaton
One love! One heart! One library!Building a single UI Library across multi-brand and multi-platform with Design Tokens and a better use of Figma component properties.
Feb 16, 2023
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Feb 16, 2023
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UX Planet
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Edward Chechique
How to use ChatGPT when working on design systems documentationMaximizing Efficiency and Streamlining Workflow with ChatGPT
Feb 14, 2023
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Feb 14, 2023
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UX Planet
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Deepak Choudhary
Design Tokens — a Design System Superpower!Design Tokens, though it has been in the industry for a while, it’s only recently that it has picked up the pace. Most of the design…
Dec 22, 2022
Dec 22, 2022
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Bootcamp
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valentino baptista
How I name Design Tokens and ComponentsA brief, but hopefully effective, walk through my process of creating names for my components and all three levels of Design Tokens.
Dec 3, 2022
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Dec 3, 2022
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UntilNow
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Charles Hoang
Product Designers take note — tokens save time and money.Design tokens are a foundational technology that supports the present and future. They are platform agnostic; regardless of what tools we…
Dec 14, 2022
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Dec 14, 2022
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Gusto Design
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Josh Cusick
Building WorkbenchHow we created the Timeline component
Jul 12, 2022
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Jul 12, 2022
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Deliveroo Design
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Christos Kastritis
How to understand your Design System’s health, and eventually, its success.How might we communicate the value of our design system? How do we measure success? These are the questions that occupy the minds of many…
Jun 1, 2020
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Jun 1, 2020
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Design at Sprout Social
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Chase McCoy
Measuring the health of our design systemDesign systems are like community gardens, and understanding their health is key to success.
Aug 25, 2020
Aug 25, 2020
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UX Collective
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Lukas Oppermann
Naming design tokensLearn how to effectively name your design tokens in a systematic and future proof way. Understand all key concepts used today.
Feb 5
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Feb 5
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Cristiano Rastelli
How to manage your Design Tokens with Style DictionaryRecently I have come across a tool, called Style Dictionary, developed by Danny Banks at Amazon, that allows you to manage design tokens…
Sep 27, 2018
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Sep 27, 2018
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EightShapes
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Nathan Curtis
Figma Shared LibrariesExtend a design system with assets maintained by contributors
May 27, 2022
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May 27, 2022
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UX Planet
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Backlight
The importance of accessibility in design systemsWeaving A11y into the fabric of your design system
Apr 12, 2022
Apr 12, 2022
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Razorpay.Design
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Saurav Rastogi
Organising Design SystemsGet to know how to organise design systems as a single source of truth in your organisation.
Nov 29, 2021
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Nov 29, 2021
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Doctolib
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Jérôme Benoit
The tortuous journey of enhancing our color paletteColors are always a tricky topic to address for many reasons. First, it’s a key pillar of a brand’s identity and has a clear impact on the…
Oct 13, 2021
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Oct 13, 2021
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Vlad Korobov
Flexible 2 icons button in Sketch with Smart LayoutAt the moment of writing, there is a Sketch 59, and I didn’t see anybody using Smart Layout the right way in button design. I think it is…
Oct 20, 2019
Oct 20, 2019