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A Component-Based Workflow for Sketch
You can even nest components and publish them to the team library. That way you can construct modules from individual source elements, then later reuse those modules across more complex views and flows in other files. Deeply-nested components make maintaining a single source of truth incredibly easy and predictable.
Bryn Jackson • Team Libraries in Figma
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Component-based design systems produce inherent efficiencies for designers and developers, and solve the challenges associated with duplication and inconsistency in applying themes -- while driving the development of better quality, reusable components. Clients gain the benefit of better brand management resulting from a simplified content editor e... See more
Cassey Bowden • Advantages of Component-Based Web Design Systems
Brian Thomas Clark added
At this point you might be thinking: “It’s just a sketch or a wireframe. I do that all the time anyway.” But it’s a bit different. This is a sketch focused specifically on the content structure of a module, and the hierarchy and grouping of the elements.
Alla Kholmatova • Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
To standardize design production, best-in-class organizations are now implementing a design system which is a library of design components (e.g. a button, a menu, a banner, a checkbox), design tokens (a color, an icon, a typo, etc.) as well as guidelines to use them.Specify is bringing design system management to the next level with a single design... See more
Alexandre Dewez • 🐙 Backing Specify
Lillian Sheng added
I used this system to design self-documenting components that were easy to develop against, and allowed the rest of the team to build new and consistent UI without needing me.
Pirijan Ketheswaran • Redesigning an App, One Day a Week at a Time
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Designers and developers are willing to collaborate but are facing key challenges:
- Their tools are not connected (Figma for designers | Microsoft Visual Studio and Github for developers)
- They don’t speak the same language
- Design tools produce images that developers have to translate into code
- It’s impossible to preserve a brand identity across all its
Alexandre Dewez • 🐙 Backing Specify
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