What is a design system?
Maintain full control over your company’s brand with a design system.
Design system: the essentials
Do you want to teach yourself the essentials of design systems? Look no further—we have gathered our popular content on design systems in one place, for your convenience.
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Best practices for building a design system
Get tips on how to start with design systems and what common pitfalls you should avoid.
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Integrating Enonic with your design system
Learn to fuse a design system with Enonic, including technology prerequisites, build system, and integration points.
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Top 12 UX trends 2023
Get a grip on the latest news and developments in the realm of user experience.
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Content operations and the choice of CMS
What features does your CMS need to have to really shine at ContentOps?
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Content management in the age of digital customer experience
How you should align the ideas of a great customer journey with traditional content management.
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The biggest trends in content and tech: CTO interview
What are currently the largest trends within content management technology that will impact both developers and editors?
What is a design system?
A system maintaining visual and functional elements in one place, to fulfil brand principles through design, realisation, and development of products and services.
What does a design system contain?
Design systems usually include organisation principles, design principles, components (codes, bars, buttons, cards, icons), and patterns (specifications on how to use components consistently).
How do you build a design system?
Communicate advantages early (scalability, reuse, brand protection), find inspiration from others, keep it simple, start modest and build for scale, use smart documentation and roadmap, build a robust process, collaborate across functions and departments.
What are examples of design systems?
Polaris by Shopify, Material Design by Google, Atlassian Design, IBM Design Language, Airbnb Design, Fluent by Microsoft, MailChimp, Nachos by Trello, Solid by BuzzFeed, Buffer, Apple, Lightning by Salesforce.