Design Systems
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2018
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this highly requested episode, Scott and Wes talk about design systems, what they are, why you may want or need one, how to use them, efficiency, best practices, and much more…
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Show Notes
2:40
- Design Systems 101
9:40
- Organizational elements of design systems
- It’s all about consistency
23:07
- Best tools for building design systems and style guides
41:52
- Where to learn more
Links
- Guide to Design Systems by InVision
- Shopify’s Design System
- Mailchimp’s Voice and Tone
- Zendesk Garden
- Material Design
- Awesome Design Systems
- Design Systems Repo
- Design Systems
- Docz
- Facebook Yoga
- StorybookJS
- Stuart Clarke-Frisby Tweet
- Figma’s Platform
- Figma Styles and Prototyping
- Design Systems Newsletter
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Syntax, the podcast with the tastiest web development treats out there. |
| 0:06.1 | Strap yourself in and get ready. |
| 0:08.0 | Here is Scott Tolinsky and West Boss. |
| 0:10.5 | Welcome to Syntax, the Web Development Podcast with the tastiest treats around. |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Scott Tlensky. I'm a full stack developer from Denver, Colorado. |
| 0:22.0 | With me as always is Wes Boss. |
| 0:25.2 | Say what's up. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:27.2 | How's it going, Wes? |
| 0:28.2 | It's going great. |
| 0:29.5 | This is the last thing I am doing before I head off on vacation, so I'm super stoked about that. |
| 0:35.0 | Nice. You got your bags packed, you got your foot out the door, ready to go. |
| 0:38.0 | Yeah, actually no bags packed. I got to do the whole, put the hamburger on top of the car. |
| 0:45.0 | Do you know the car topper? |
| 0:46.7 | Do you have one of those? |
| 0:47.7 | No. |
| 0:48.7 | Oh, no, we don't have one of those, but I've never, |
| 0:50.8 | I know what you're talking about, |
| 0:52.0 | I've just never heard it referred to as a |
| 0:53.4 | hamburger before. Yeah yeah we growing up we always called it a hamburger |
| 0:57.0 | it's a great way to like get extra space yeah and we just got like a really sick |
| 1:01.0 | new one which I'm pretty excited about. |
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