Quotes tagged ‘Design Systems’

“You can think of design systems much like paving roads. The busiest roads with the most commonly-trafficked routes are deservedly well-maintained, but they aren’t the only roads available.”

— Daniel Eden, daneden.me

“Rather than preventing this kind of apparent misuse of the system, the design systems team should encourage it, since it reveals blind spots that are easy to miss when developing a general solution.”

— Daniel Eden, daneden.me

“It was during a weekly design critique that it became clear we had nothing to align on. Our feedback was nothing more than personal opinions based on some new design fad. This led to frustration for the designer presenting, and left the team with a feeling of uncertainty once the session was over. S…”

— Stanley Wood, medium.com

“Design has always been largely about systems, and how to create products in a scalable and repeatable way. From Pantone colors to Philips screws, these systems enable us to manage the chaos and create better products. Digital products are perhaps the most fertile ground for implementing these system…”

— Kari Saarinen, airbnb.design

“Nothing which is not simple and direct can survive the slow transmission from person to person.”

— Christopher Alexander, amazon.com

“Here’s the simple truth: you can’t innovate on products without first innovating the way you build them.”

— Alex Schleifer, airbnb.design

“Reuse and DRY are such important principles in software engineering but when it comes to CSS, it ironically makes maintainance harder. Avoid trying to reuse style rules and gain the benefits of easy to maintain CSS.”

— Adam Silver, maintainablecss.com

“What if I really want to reuse a style? It is extremely rare, but there are times when it really does make sense to reuse a style. In this case use the comma in your selectors and place it in a well named file.”

— Adam Silver, maintainablecss.com

“Because visual class names don’t hold much meaning. Take red. Does this mean a red background? Does this mean red text? Does this mean a red gradient? What tint of red does this mean?”

— Adam Silver, maintainablecss.com

“Because reuse makes debugging more difficult.”

— Adam Silver, maintainablecss.com

“Don’t try and reuse styles. Adopt a duplication-first approach”

— Adam Silver, maintainablecss.com

“Semantic class names are a corner stone of MaintainableCSS. Without this, everything else makes little sense. So name something based on what it is and everything else follows.”

— Adam Silver, maintainablecss.com

“A Design Systems Ops is a person who is part of a design systems team, who needs to get into the designers’ shoes, and have a feel what their are trying to conceptualize. At the same time, Design Systems Ops need to understand the engineering requirements and define methods that will help shipping a…”

— Kaelig, medium.com