Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
All the things I know about building design sys...
Search
Diana
April 01, 2016
Design
3
1k
All the things I know about building design systems
Lightning talk for the Clarity conference closing party.
Diana
April 01, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Diana
See All by Diana
Color from Chaos
broccolini
5
160
Design Systems: when and how much?
broccolini
5
1.2k
Color Systems
broccolini
2
570
Building design systems at GitHub
broccolini
6
1.6k
Competence, compassion, and confidence
broccolini
2
560
Empowering designers to code (2)
broccolini
13
1.1k
Empowering Designers to Code
broccolini
3
870
Responding to change
broccolini
0
330
Designing Your App
broccolini
15
650
Other Decks in Design
See All in Design
オルタナUX | AIで高速化するのもいいけど品質も大事なんじゃない?というお話
iflection
6
2.7k
ビジネスアナリシスはビジネス”分析”じゃないよ!~システム人材が価値を生むための基盤スキルとしてのビジネスアナリシス~
bpstudy
0
630
新しいデザインの難しさ(公開版) / Difficulties in the New Design (public ver.)
usagimaru
1
910
Ana Cortes Visual Development Portfolio 2025
haruanleb
0
120
Marpで推しCSSスライドを作ろう! / marp-with-favorite-css
fujiemon
0
640
デザインシステムの「種」を使って、受託開発を加速させる
akane___ui
0
11k
ChatGPT、Gemini、Claude は、なぜ似たようなUIを採用しているのか?
fuwarisprit
3
1.4k
AI駆動なデザイン開発 〜Figma Make でまるっとつくるか、 HTML でシンプルにつくるか〜
t_east
1
1.3k
「UXとUIの違い」v2
shirasu3
0
250
Yumika Yamada Portfolio
yumii
0
1.7k
Installing and Running decksh/pdfdeck
ajstarks
1
860
Designing User Experience through Interaction Design
lycorptech_jp
PRO
0
400
Featured
See All Featured
RailsConf 2023
tenderlove
30
1.2k
Chrome DevTools: State of the Union 2024 - Debugging React & Beyond
addyosmani
7
890
Performance Is Good for Brains [We Love Speed 2024]
tammyeverts
12
1.2k
YesSQL, Process and Tooling at Scale
rocio
173
14k
Side Projects
sachag
455
43k
Code Review Best Practice
trishagee
72
19k
ReactJS: Keep Simple. Everything can be a component!
pedronauck
667
120k
Six Lessons from altMBA
skipperchong
28
4k
How STYLIGHT went responsive
nonsquared
100
5.8k
BBQ
matthewcrist
89
9.8k
Speed Design
sergeychernyshev
32
1.1k
Design and Strategy: How to Deal with People Who Don’t "Get" Design
morganepeng
132
19k
Transcript
How people build software ! " G’day
How people build software ! " I’m Diana Mounter @broccolini
How people build software ! Diana Mounter! Come to Buzzfeed
and do a talk! 3 About what? All the things you know!
How people build software ! " All the things I
know About building design systems
How people build software ! ! 5 !
How people build software ! Write down your principles 6
1
How people build software ! Yup! 7 You’re gonna do
it OOCSS/ functional/atomic/BEM right?
How people build software ! 8 When you actually see
the code
How people build software ! 9 Lots of arguments vibrant
discussions
How people build software ! 10 After 6 months of
learning the hard way… Principle led development!
How people build software ! ! 11 !
How people build software ! 12 IT’S A UNIX SYSTEM
I KNOW THIS!
How people build software ! "
How people build software ! "
How people build software ! 15
How people build software ! ! Write down your principles
16 •Styleguide driven design and development •Obvious and transparent •Components, Objects, Utilities •Naming convention •Property order
How people build software ! Naming things is hard, but
it can be easier 17 2
How people build software ! 18 Choose a naming convention
• Show the options in code • Describe the pros and cons
How people build software ! 19 Is it searchable? •
In markup and CSS
How people build software ! 20 Easy to understand, quick
to internalize <div class="box xs-mt-2 bg-gray">
How people build software ! 21 Make a list of
all your classes .boxed-group .simple-box .box-group .box-simple
How people build software ! You can keep things (mostly)
up-to-date 22 3
How people build software ! 23 Use routine events to
make updates • Onboarding • Training
How people build software ! 24 Make it part of
your code review checklist • Did you update the docs?
How people build software ! Make it easy for everyone
to contribute to documentation 25 4
How people build software ! 26
How people build software ! Let people play with the
lego 27 5
How people build software ! Let people play with the
lego 28 1
How people build software ! 29 Cap: Check out basscss.
It’s a class library that lets you build new UI elements quickly. Sam: I hate it! https://medium.com/buzzfeed-design/how-i-learned-to-stop- worrying-and-love-the-atomic-class-98d6ccc45781#.ootp6rbxh
How people build software ! 30 Give designers a prototyping
environment that is easy to setup and uses production CSS.
How people build software ! 31 Styleguides are a gateway
drug for empowering designers to code.
How people build software ! Look forward, don’t look back
32 6
How people build software ! 33
How people build software ! 34 Not everything needs to
be changed all at once.
How people build software ! Just do it (but choose
your ships!) 35 7
How people build software ! " Thanks!