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Design That Scales : Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mall, Dan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- System design.
- Work design.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Rosenfeld, 2023.
- Summary:
- After years of building the same interface elements, some designers and developers get wise and try to create reusable, common solutions to help everyone stop reinventing the wheel every time. Most fail. In Design That Scales, design systems expert Dan Mall draws on his extensive experience helping some of the world's most recognizable brands create design practices that are truly sustainable.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- How to Use This Book
- Who Should Read This Book?
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Why Design Systems?
- Systems Connect Organizations
- Common Benefits of Design Systems
- Who Are Design Systems For?
- Questions for Reflection
- Chapter 2: Design System Fundamentals
- Word Nerds Unite!
- Different Kinds of Design Systems
- Choose Your Own Design System Adventure
- Chapter 3: The Parts of a Design System Product
- The Most Common Parts of a Design System
- The Sum of Its Parts
- Design Systems Are About Connectedness
- Component Libraries vs. Design Systems
- Connect the Entire Digital Ecosystem
- Chapter 4: The Broken Business of "Buy-In"
- "Make System, Use System" Is a Fantasy
- Getting Design System Buy-in Is Often Pitching Vaporware
- Abstract Design Systems Are Difficult to Make
- Good Luck Convincing Someone to Adopt a New Tool
- Product Teams Don't Contribute to Design Systems
- Chapter 5: Pilots-The Best Way to Start and Sustain a Design System
- Linking Design System to Product Work
- A Design System Pilot Scorecard
- Types of Design System Pilots
- Multiple, Concurrent Pilots
- Improving the System as You Use It
- The Piloting Process
- Extracting and Abstracting
- Chapter 6: Governance and Contribution
- The WordPress Ecosystem as It Relates to Design Systems
- A Framework for Design System Governance
- A Design System Governance and Contribution Template
- Design System as Canon and the Expanded Universe
- Chapter 7: Roles and Responsibilities
- Front-end Engineering Is More Important Than Visual Design
- Front-end Engineering Is More Important Than Back-end Engineering
- Front-end Engineering: The Missing Skill Set
- Rebranding the "Front-end Engineer"
- Psychological Safety
- Ecosystem Engineers
- Three-legged Stools
- Other Roles on a Design System Team
- Design System Annual Budgeting
- Chapter 8: Process and Workflow for Design Systems
- Frameworks over Processes
- Less Is More
- The Hot Potato Process
- A Change in Tools Needs a Change in Behavior
- Hot Potato Gotchas
- Resistance to New Workflow
- Chapter 9: Success Metrics for a Design System
- Identifying Custom Success Metrics
- A Framework to Measure Success
- People Succeed, Not Systems
- Align Goals to Connect an Organization
- Chapter 10: Evangelism Never Stops
- Lay Out Your Design System like a Store
- Make Your Design System About Its Users
- Conclusion
- Index
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Back Cover
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9781808827891
- OCLC:
- 1406412194
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