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Creating a Design System - The Why Book
Creating anything of great value requires a great purpose around it. Purpose exists in the problem space. If your purpose is to solve the problems of your stakeholders you must understand their problems better than them. And therefore you need new perspective lense. Reading this book would give you that lense and pattern to discovery user problems, you can then create a framework in your mind to solve the problems.
1. CONTINUOUS DISCOVERY HABITS - by Teresa Torres
Recommended for Product Designers, Product manager, UX Designer much for then Frontend developers or UI Designers.
Few Notes from the book :
Begin With the End in Mind
Opportunity Solution Tree
Frame, refine, and prioritize the opportunity space
Prioritizing Opportunities, not solutions
Two way Door Decisions
Quantity Leads to Quality
Testing Assumption, Not Ideas
Measuring Impact
2. Laying the Foundations - by Andrew Couldwell
Design System 101
This book is real talk about creating design systems. No jargon, no glossing over the hard realities, and no company hat. Just good advice, experience, and practical tips.
Notes:
How to Sell a design system at your company ?
Mission, values, and principles of a design System
Much more learning from the book
I would highly recommend the book to UI Designer, Product Designer, the book also focus more on practical tips, and setting up realistic expectations
3. Thinking in Systems: A Primer - By Donella Meadows
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows is an insightful guide to understanding and working with complex systems.
Here's a brief summary of the book's key concepts:
What is a System?
Stocks and Flows
Feedback Loops, Delays, Leverage Points
System Traps and Opportunities
Mental Models
Recommended for Product Manager, Team Leads, or developers as well, anyone who like systems in general.
4. Articulating Design Decisions:
Great Designers are great StoryTellers as well
Easy to Read,
Book is highly about communication, meeting, getting consensus, understand client needs or how to handle them.
Some of the advice may be highly general, but give a good context.
Recommended for Designers, Product Designer, Freelancers.
Designing Design System - The What Books
What and who to Design for, Do you understand the domain, Do you know the Design foundations even ?
1. Design Systems - By Alia Kholmatova
Notes:
I found the book highly visually appealing, very structured, and filled with example
Book give you everything, pattern, principles, structure as to how to start creating Design System
The Books is quite short, have a number of reference after every chapter.
Recommended for Designers, Developers, and Product Managers as well. I quite like the book,i am a bit biased.
2. Design School - Type
The Book is a practical and visually engaging guide that delves into the fundamentals of typography and its application in design.
Here's a concise summary of the book's key takeaways:
Typography Basics
Type Hierarchy
okay i like the aesthetics of the book
Typography in Layouts and Grids
Typographic Principles
Just Read the Book it's great
Recommended for Designers, Product Designer.
3. Design School - Layout
Yup I read this first, and then I read the type one. i like the aesthetics of this books
Notes:
Layout Fundamentals
Grids, Grid System,
Layout Composition
Terminologies
Book also have a test your knowledge section at the end of each chapter. Nice!
I was really bad with layout understanding, and grids as a developer. This book helped me with that, now i love grids. Good tutorial for css Grid
Building Design System - The How Books
Creating a cohesive and effective design system is no small feat—it requires a deep understanding of design principles, organization, and collaboration.
1. Frontend Architecture for Design Systems
Recommended for Developer, Design Engineers, Team lead, Product Manager
Notes:
the Book is quite old now, published in pre tailwind era (2016)
Css Approaches mentioned are good
a wholesome book, filled with real life example
Best learning was the way of break down of design into design system at Red hat .com
As we say basics remain the same, this books will be great refresher on them. code examples are quite outdated.
2. Design System for Developers - By Michael Mangialardi
Recommended for Developer, Design Engineers, It's like a hands on tutorial on creating Design System.
Notes:
Learn how to code design systems that scale
Best Hands on guide on Design System for Developers.
Goes in depth with Naming, creating, developing Design Tokens
Learn Style-dictionary
Tailwind example
3. Building Design Systems - by Sarrah Vesselov and Taurie Davis
Recommended for Designers, Developers, Product Managers, Product Designers. Loved the perspective of Sarrah and Taurie.
Notes:
Creating a Typographic System
An Accessible Color System
The Case study of Gitlab is great
Gives you primers on Open sourcing your Design System
Loved the Concept of Shared Design Language
4. Practical Web Inclusion and Accessibility - Ashley Firth
Recommended for Designers, Developers, QA, PM, Product Designers.
Notes:
Chapter are based on Disabilities and how to
Learn Aria
Keyboard Accessibility
Intro to Screen Reader Softwares, Browser build-in ones
After each chapter there are a number of reference, so that you can learn in depth about the same
styling cue in audio and video tags, didn't know that
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS
https://rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-styling
5. Inclusive Design Patterns - By Heydon Pickering
Recommended for Developers, QA, PM, Product Designers.
Notes:
Filled with code example for accessibility
Schematic HTML is explained well
Using readability checker
Some of the tips are highly practical
Explains the bad practise and how to solve them
Every chapter has things to avoid
Testing for accessibility
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