Designing Effective Systems That Work. Meet Design Systems, our new practical guide to creating design languages for digital products. 
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280 pages. Release: September 2017.
About The Book As the web continuously becomes more complex, designing static pages has become untenable, so that many of us have started to approach design in a more modular way. In a brand-new Smashing book "Design Systems", Alla Kholmatova, most recently a lead interface designer at FutureLearn, sets out to identify what makes an effective design system that can empower teams to create great digital products. the book looks into all the practical techniques of how to make a design system work long-term. It's not about tooling; it's about how to set up a shared language that would be understood, accepted and evolved within the company to produce visual output that renders designer's intent. 
The first chapters of the book are available already. Release: September 2017. Pre-order the book.
Throughout this book, Alla shares an approach and the key qualities of a well-functioning, enduring design system. It's based on personal experiences, case-studies from AirBnB, Atlassian, Eurostar, TED, and Sipgate, plus 18 months of interviews — all attempting to figure out what works and what doesn't work in real-life products and to figure out the right strategy for establishing and evolving a design system in your organization. 280 pages. Printed Hardcover. Coming in September 2017. Start reading now. Get PDF sample. Pre-order the book.
Who The Book Is For the book explores design systems from the perspective of an interaction and visual designer. This is a design book, but it isn't about what to design. It is about how to approach your design process more systematically, and ensure your design system helps to achieve the purpose of your product and fits with the culture of your team. It's aimed mainly at small and medium-sized product teams trying to integrate modular thinking into their organization's culture. Everyone in the product team could benefit from reading this book, but particularly visual and interaction designers, UX practitioners, and front-end developers.
What You Will Learn: - How to think in patterns without losing sight of the whole,
- How to get support for a design system,
- How to conduct a purpose-directed interface audit,
- How to establish and evolve a shared design language,
- How to shift your team's design process from thinking in pages to connected systems,
- How to strike a balance between reusability, consistency, and creative expression of the brand,
- How to identify patterns early in the design process,
- How to eliminate duplicates and inconsistencies,
- How to define and integrate patterns into the system,
- How to document and evolve design patterns.
The result is now for you to judge: a guide on designing systems that work, with case-studies from real-life products. Pre-order the book now — it won't take more than 30 sec.
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