A Practical Guide to Building a Design System in 90 Days
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[email protected] (Vitaly Friedman)
1y ago· 5 min readen
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Summary
This article from Smashing Magazine provides a practical guide for setting up a design system from scratch within 90 days. It covers starting points like stakeholder conversations, UI audits, and naming conventions, and offers PDF worksheets and tools to help get the design system effort adopted. The content is sponsored by a course on measuring UX and design impact.
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Do we start with key stakeholders, UI audits, or naming conventions?
And what are some of the critical conversations we need to have early to avoid problems down the line?
Fortunately, there are a few useful little helpers to get started — and they are the ones I
Helpful PDF worksheets and tools to get the design system effort up and running — and adopted! Kindly powered by How To Measure UX and Design Impact, a friendly course on how to show the impact of your incredible UX work on business.
