It's Ready And It's Shipping: Everything On Design Systems Meet Design Systems, our new practical guide to creating design languages for digital products. 
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About The Book Many of us have started to approach design in a more modular way recently. It's just more manageable this way. We experiment with pattern libraries and style guides and almighty design systems, yet while some of us succeed, most of us fail. Our systems get out-of-date too quickly or just don't get enough traction in our companies. It's about time to fix it. That's why we've teamed up with Alla Kholmatova to find out what makes a design system effective and what works and what doesn't work in real-life products. After 18 months of research and writing, interviewing AirBnB, Atlassian, Eurostar, TED and Sipgate, the book is finally done — and it's shipping. Table of Contents. 
A brand new book from the everything-to-know-about-design-systems-department. Free PDF sample.
We're very proud to release it today: a brand-new Smashing book on "Design Systems" — — 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 consistently renders designer's intent. Download a free PDF sample (0.7MB) in which Alla discusses the qualities of effective design systems and how to define them. Available as print and eBook.
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. 
If you get a printed book, the eBook is included for free. Or, if you are just interested in the eBook, that's also available for purchase.
The book is 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.
Testimonials It has been our goal to make the book as practical and useful as possible. We've been honored to receive very positive reviews from people working on design systems on small and large scale. - "Alla's book outlines a process not just for creating a design system, but sustaining it over time. If you work on today's web, I'd strongly recommend reading this insightful, approachable book."
— Ethan Marcotte, Designer - "Design Systems is essential reading for all designers and design teams. Like great design – and effective systems – this book is a complete, connected, compelling guide for crafting great digital product experiences. No single resource has been more integral to our thinking about design systems than Alla's book."
— Jon Bell, Design manager, MailChimp - "Alla's thoughtful analysis of systems-oriented thinking is a fundamental primer for anyone looking to establish a universal language across their team or organization."
— Bethany Sonefeld, Design lead, Carbon Design System, IBM - "The magic of this book is its recognition that building a design system is as much about forming human connections as it is about technical solutions. It embraces the hard problems, and clears a path to help teams work towards a shared, cohesive vision."
— Amy Thibodeau, UX lead, Polaris Design System, Shopify
Your Turn Now! The result is now for you to judge: a guide on designing systems that work, with case-studies from real-life products. Get the book now — it won't take more than 30 sec. $29 Get the book Hardcover + eBook. Free worldwide shipping.
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