Design That Scales

UI Kit

FIGURE 8.21Hot Potato works best when each party frequently works independently, then together, then independently, and then together.

It’s more than plug-and-play components. It’s more than assembling parts into a layout. It’s more than documentation as a dry instruction manual. It’s a whole ecosystem that describes a way of doing things, shows you examples as starting points, and gives you the ingredients to try it yourself.

Make Your Design System About Its Users

FIGURE 6.5AMagic happens when a connected and safe team gets into a state of flow.

FIGURE 8.7The original waterfall process from Dr. Winston Royce.

How to Make Sense of Any Mess,8 information architect Abby Covert

tools and templates are design systems that are designed to ultimately be detached from their original source and given away to take root elsewhere.

Instead of spending a few hours making a comp, they solved it together in just a few seconds.