Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)

Create a Pattern Map

When choosing a direction, consider your organizational structure, team culture, and specific product needs.

clearly states the purpose of each variant.

with two levels of hierarchy: atoms and molecules.

Workflow

The team was able to get down all the core patterns and their definitions quickly,

The latter can be acted on by going through the interface and questioning the purpose of every element.

“The main problem with presentation based naming is that you can’t find what

product is perceived; throughout this book I’ll refer to them as perceptual patterns.