An ongoing stream of what the Autogram team is writing, reading, and discussing.
“We need to think in terms of systems, not screens. The teams that develop ‘design systems’ (a phrase I increasingly dislike) do so to gain cohesiveness and speed — not to liberate themselves to work more abstractly.”
Jeff presented Your System is a Language at UXCamp Chicago.
“What is systems design? It’s the thing that will eventually kill your project if you do it wrong, but probably not right away.”
Karen and Jeff were quoted in The Future of Building for Digital at Contentful.
Maintaining a system takes more effort than building it, so Shopify captures decisions and rationale in an experience foundation for their design system, Polaris.
As the BBC moves to hosting all of their sub-brands on a single core website, the design system must evolve to support a shared foundation.
Self-organizing teams and agile retrospectives can reinforce power dynamics and marginalize people. Inclusive facilitation means paying attention to individual needs.
Jeff appeared on Episode 116 of The Cognitive Bias Podcast.
“The system serves people, not the other way around. It’s the designers and engineers, the real customers of design systems, who need to be at the center of our work.”
This standard presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of controlled vocabularies.