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Designing for the Digital Age, Kim Goodwin. Kim’s book covers just about everything you’ll need to know to design digital products. It’s packed with practical details on the design process, interface design, and so much more. I mention it here, not only because it is great, but also because it’s one of the few books I own that actually covers prese
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Kinopio’s Design Principles
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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
Design system guidelines often take the form of principles or user experience best practices.
Dan Mall • Design That Scales
Design Principles
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Defensive CSS
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Good design doesn’t happen in isolation. It balances user needs and business outcomes. It flexes. It listens. It collaborates.
Nate Schloesser • Design Isn’t Dead. You Sound Dumb
This post is meant to be a foundational building block for further thinking on emerging standards in the shape of design organizations.
Peter Merholz • The Emerging Shape of Design Orgs
Code, design and the pattern library are facets of the same system.