Like any digital product, launching a design system is just the first step. The next step is about supporting, evolving, and scaling your design system as it matures with your product(s) and technology. The design system team must also gather user feedback for system improvements, bug fixes, and new components. There are no right or
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On the surface, building a design system is a matter of designing a collection of elements, components, text styles, and colors. But the truth is it’s a more complex procedure. Building, managing, and scaling a design system requires principles and direction. This article was inspired by the webinar about Design System with Carola Cassaro, which
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Adopting and scaling a design system is challenging. You must get buy-in from the entire organization, which means evangelizing your design system to persuade stakeholders, product managers, development teams, and designers of its value. Building a design system is just the first step; scaling and reaching optimal design system maturity costs a lot of time
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Building a design system is a time-consuming and costly exercise. But, as many organizations have shown, the benefits far outweigh the costs. A design system roadmap allows team members and stakeholders to monitor the design system’s maturity, milestones, and timeline. Whether you’re just getting started or want to grow an existing design system, this article
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Getting stakeholder and organizational support is crucial for ongoing investment and the future success of your design system. The DS team must prove that employees use the design system and that it delivers a positive return on investment. In our January 2022 webinar, Defending Your Design System, Carola Cassaro talked about the challenges DS teams
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Create useful UX documentation. More insights, less paper trails. Good UX documentation is detailed yet lean. It should be highly focused, actionable, and purposeful.
Some team members despise design system governance. They see it as a roadblock to rapid growth, creativity, and flexibility. However, design system governance can foster scalability and creativity if properly implemented while maintaining design and usability consistency. Good design system governance prioritizes users before growth and profits. Company culture also plays a significant role in
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Usability testing is a crucial part of the design thinking process. It’s an opportunity for UX teams to present their solutions to those whose problems they’re trying to solve—a nerve-racking and exciting experience! UXPin is the world’s most sophisticated prototyping and usability testing design tool. Using UXPin with Merge technology, designers can create high-fidelity prototypes
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In recent times, there has been an increased focus on having a pixel-perfect UI that is not only visually stunning but also fulfills the requirements of the user effectively. This renewed focus on UI has resulted in a massive growth in tools, frameworks, and environments that aid this movement. Storybook is one such tool that
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In the second part of January 2018, we’ve released many improvements to Design Systems (subpages in custom pages, protection from losing documentation, table element), the Editor (copy-paste of interactions, manual distance measurement, blur, and more), and also a new version of Sketch plugin 4.10.4 with small bug fixes and improvements. Design Systems Add and manage
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In the first week of 2018, we’ve introduced: enhancements to Design Systems, improvements to shortcuts in UXPin Editor, and released new Sketch plugin v.4.10.3. Design Systems New: Colorize stroke for SVG assets.
Recently, we’ve released new features in Design Systems: search in the documentation, dark background for light assets and text styles, possibility to add colors from any website to a Design System. In the Editor, we’ve: added a possibility to break a symbol, improved copying and pasting, and enabled aligning single elements to the canvas. Design
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This week we’ve welcomed December with the brand-new Shadows feature, a new version of the plugin compatible with the newest Sketch 48, and several improvements to the Design Systems. Design Systems New: Renaming the Design System from the Dashboard by clicking on its name. New: Replacing the Design Systems name within the logotype. New: Adding
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In the last week of November we’ve released several improvements to Design Systems, Editor, as well as a new version of the Sketch plugin. Design Systems Optimized lazy loading for the Assets section in Design Systems documentation. Fixed: Disappearing documentation for the Text styles after adding any elements to Design System Library in Sketch. Sketch
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Over past week and a half, we’ve released several improvements to Design Systems, Editor, and overall app usability. Sketch plugin 4.10 Updating colors and assets in Design System and Design System Library. Creating Design System straight from the Design System Library panel. Alignment issues for graphic elements imported from Sketch. Hidden layers from Sketch are
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