From the Tech For Good & Front-End Innovators meet-up at DoSomething.org on June 23, 2014.
A number of websites such as GitHub, BBC and CodeForAmerica utilize live style guides to enforce visual consistency throughout their site and facilitate rapid building of user interfaces. The success of these guides us dependent on a functional collaborative relationship between front-end and design.
Creative Lead Crystal Ruth Bell gives a short introduction to the successful framework DoSomething.org has built to prioritize design organizationally and foster design / front-end co-creation of the site's style guide.