I haven't spent a ton of time with front-end engineering and started to wonder about real world experiences with design systems. It seems like such a daunting process to create, catalog, and communicate a unified system. Do you have an established design system? Do you contribute to creating one? What's it like documenting all the different components?
#Experiences with Design Systems
worn current
lament trellis
I have worked on a design systems team before and just took a job that will be maintaining a css design system and creating a component library to go with it in Svelte. It is a process and it is the entire collection that makes up the design system. For a company, a design system that isn't used is worthless. So good documentation, a way to test and use the library, plus dev education and advocacy comes into okay when getting devs on board to use it. I look at large corporations design systems and things like open UI when looking for inspiration on docs and code styles.
worn current
Cool, that makes sense. Open UI is new to me, and looks like a good foundation. Thanks!
shy beacon
Storybook is a good tool to get everyone on board
sharp moss
I don't generally work on things that overlap with it, but we use Storybook at work. Others seem happy with it.