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A practical guide to Design System components: A 4-part guide to create, document and maintain your design system components.
Build, measure, learn — terms anyone in product development is familiar with. We use these processes to guide us to create successful products. But what about design systems? Being relatively new in the product arena, we’re all still ‘figuring it out’ component by component, scratching our heads and reworking our libraries when we get low to no adoption or find everyone is going custom.
Ness Grixti draws upon her extensive experience in design and design systems to tackle these issues and devise scalable processes that guarantee consistently high-quality libraries. Her book, A practical guide to Design System components, offers a comprehensive and practical guide to researching, designing, testing, and maintaining design system components. It also provides tips and tricks for keeping a clean, consistent, user-friendly library.
Who should read this book?This book is aimed at designers who work with design systems and component libraries, as well as software developers and product managers who want to deepen their knowledge of the end-to-end design process of a component. It is also useful for anyone who designs reusable interface elements for others who might not know where to begin or what steps to take next.
What you’ll get from this bookBy following the processes offered in this guide whenever you’re creating or improving components, you’ll end up with —
An accessible and well-thought-through component library.Research and justification behind design decisions.Foolproof usage documentation.Aligned cross-platform build.Buy-in from your team and external stakeholders = aka guaranteed adoption.
Ness Grixti draws upon her extensive experience in design and design systems to tackle these issues and devise scalable processes that guarantee consistently high-quality libraries. Her book, A practical guide to Design System components, offers a comprehensive and practical guide to researching, designing, testing, and maintaining design system components. It also provides tips and tricks for keeping a clean, consistent, user-friendly library.
Who should read this book?This book is aimed at designers who work with design systems and component libraries, as well as software developers and product managers who want to deepen their knowledge of the end-to-end design process of a component. It is also useful for anyone who designs reusable interface elements for others who might not know where to begin or what steps to take next.
What you’ll get from this bookBy following the processes offered in this guide whenever you’re creating or improving components, you’ll end up with —
An accessible and well-thought-through component library.Research and justification behind design decisions.Foolproof usage documentation.Aligned cross-platform build.Buy-in from your team and external stakeholders = aka guaranteed adoption.
156 pages, Paperback
Published February 28, 2024
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January 11, 2025
Unfortunately, the book didn’t resonate with me at all. It’s full of questions and contains some good insights. Overall, however, I find it rather unhelpful. It’s probably really aimed at complete beginners to give them a bit of an overview. From the description, I had the impression that it would be for a more advanced audience.
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