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Six myths holding you back from embracing design systems
Setting the record straight

Six myths holding you back from embracing design systems

Ana Boyer

Getting Started

Best in class design systems basics
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Design & Development

Exploring collaborations in code
Juli Sombat

How Spotify’s design system goes beyond platforms

Design Manager Juli Sombat sheds light on how a need for more cohesion led Spotify’s design systems team to take a cross-platform approach to components.

Figma

The future of design systems is semantic

Variables, one of Figma’s newest features, help you streamline designs and connect more closely to code, but what do they tell us about larger shifts in the industry? We dig into what they might signal for the future of design systems.

Figma

The future of design systems is accessible

In the third part of our series, we talk to design system and accessibility experts about making inclusive systems a top priority.

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Schema by Figma

Talks and topics from our annual design systems conference
Figma

New York

Find out how the Credit Karma team designed a community-driven design system, and more talks from Schema by Figma New York 2022.

Figma

London

Juggling new and legacy systems, stakeholders, multidimensional design systems, and more talks from Schema by Figma London 2022.

Figma

東京 Tokyo

Hear how teamLab balances efficiency and invention with their design system, and more talks from Schema by Figma Tokyo 2022.

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Design Operations

Lessons in process and management
Daniel O'Connor

How Thumbtack structures their design system

Staff Software Engineer Daniel O'Connor peels back the layers of the home service platform's design system, Thumbprint, to show how they built it for flexibility and efficiency.

Wart Burggraaf

Keeping design system contributions in check

Is your design system suffering from a lack of compliance? Learn how one team established a self-governing contribution process that grows with them.

Wart Burggraaf

A collaborative approach to defining components and their features

Aligning designers, developers, and maintainers around a component’s purpose is the key to creating a system that can be easily extended and governed.

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