Six myths holding you back from embracing 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 & Development
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.
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.
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.
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 Operations
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.
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.
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.
Design Systems Repo
Design systems open to everyone in the Figma Community
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