Schema by 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.
London
Juggling new and legacy systems, stakeholders, multidimensional design systems, and more talks from Schema by Figma London 2022.
東京 Tokyo
Hear how teamLab balances efficiency and invention with their design system, and more talks from Schema by Figma Tokyo 2022.
Design & Development
Building ChimeKit with Atomic Design and a collaborative process
Like any good product or experience, design systems continue to evolve over time. ChimeKit takes care of the mundane parts of building a design system so that designers and developers can spend more time building high-quality experiences.
React containers, some assembly required
Introducing react-containers: a new open source library to help elevate no-UI containers, with a focus on accessibility, brought to you by the Zendesk Design Systems team.
Stack mirroring: Designing for code and coding for design
Take direction from code to achieve functional, reusable, extensible, and version-controlled design systems.
Getting Started
Space, grids, and layouts
Learn how to define baseline grids, column grids, spacing, and layouts.
A complete guide to iconography
Learn how to create, organize, name, and use icons within a design system.
Typography
Learn about choosing typefaces, font weights, styles, sizes, line-heights, and responsive type for your design system.
Guide to content strategy
Content and microcopy appear all over design system components. This guide will walk you through how to get started with content strategy in your design system.
Design Operations
How to govern a design system that is continuously evolving
Design system governance can and should be inclusive. With the right process, everyone gets a chance to weigh in and test the proposals for their own use cases.
The case for an open design system
The Workday design systems team shares final lessons in making Canvas an open design system in the last part of this three-part series.
Productizing your design system
In the second of a three-part series, the Workday design systems team explores approaches to productize a design system.
Design Systems Repo
Design systems open to everyone in the Figma Community
Taking cues from code
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