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Team Libraries in Figma
One popular technique that we’ve seen emerge is called the design system, or live style guide.
Josh Seiden • Sense and Respond: How Successful Organizations Listen to Customers and Create New Products Continuously
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
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
The core insight of Figma is that design is larger than just designers. Design is all of the conversations between designers and PMs about what to build. It is the mocks and prototypes and the feedback on them. It is the handoff of specs and assets to engineers and how easy it is for them to implement them. Building for this entire process doesn’t ... See more