Truly Portable Design Patterns

One of the main promises of design systems is to create a pattern or component once and see it reused by designers and developers throughout your organization. This promise is mostly unrealized. The most common design tools cannot consume our front-end patterns, which are often locked in to a specific framework that may not work for every team or project

Fortunately, our tools and web standards are catching up with our design system aspirations. New web-based design tools like Framer X and UX Pin make it possible to import pattern library components directly. Even more traditional design tools like Sketch can be now consume pattern libraries. And web components have the potential to become a lingua franca for design systems allowing us to create components that can be used with whatever JavaScript framework your team chooses.

In this session, Jason will demonstrate how close we are to the promise of design systems by showing how components can flow through our design tools and development frameworks and what challenges remain to be solved.

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1. Truly Portable
   Design Patterns
   

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9. Design System Intermediaries
   • Distributors
   • Translators
   • Themers
   Nathan Curtis
   

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10. Design System Intermediaries
    • Distributors
    • Translators
    • Themers
    Nathan Curtis
    • Translators
    

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11. https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/design-systems-intermediaries-955ef18c9409
    

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12. https://medium.com/eightshapes-llc/design-systems-intermediaries-955ef18c9409
    

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13. User-Friendly
    Integrated
    Collaborative
    Pick Any Two
    https://cloudfour.com/thinks/qualities-of-successful-pattern-libraries/
    

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18. DOM Manipulation Component Creation
    

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27. Components all
    the way down
    Design system components
    JS Framework components
    Design tools components
    CMS components
    Web components
    

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28. https://twitter.com/maxlynch/status/1154844592610656256
    

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33. Paul Hebert
    Designer & Developer
    https://cloudfour.com/is/paul/
    

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35. Demo web components
    Button
    Color Swatches
    Radio Buttons Group
    Stepper
    Star Ratings
    Product Illustration
    Text
    Columns
    Product Lockup
    Containers
    

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36. What is a web component?
    

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37. Define our own custom HTML elements
    I'm a c4-button!
    

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    I'm a c4-button!
    
    
    I'm a secondary c4-button!
    
    
    I'm a tertiary c4-button!
    
    
    I'm a disabled c4-button!
    
    
    I'm actually a link!
    
    

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39. Custom Elements
    Shadow DOM
    HTML Template
    create new HTML elements
    encapsulates style and markup
    defines fragments of markup for later use
    

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41. ✅ Encapsulation
    ✅ Shadow DOM
    ✅ ES Modularity
    ✅ HTML templates
    A basic web component…
    

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42. ✅ Encapsulation
    ✅ Shadow DOM
    ✅ ES Modularity
    ✅ HTML templates
    Virtual DOM
    CSS Processing
    Declarative
    templates
    Reactive data
    binding
    SSR
    

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43. ✅ Encapsulation
    ✅ Shadow DOM
    ✅ ES Modularity
    ✅ JSX Templates
    ✅ Virtual DOM
    ✅ Data Binding
    ✅ SSR
    ✅ CSS Processing
    A Stencil component…
    

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44. ✅ Encapsulation
    ✅ Shadow DOM
    ✅ ES Modularity
    ✅ JSX Templates
    ✅ Virtual DOM
    ✅ Data Binding
    ✅ SSR
    ✅ CSS Processing
    …compiles to a vanilla
    web component!
    

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53. React Sketch.app only supports React Native
    https://airbnb.io/react-sketchapp/docs/FAQ.html#view--text-where-are-the-shapes-talk-to-me-about-your-api-decisions
    

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87. Thank You!
    

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