Atomic Design. Eh?

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1. Atomic Design Eh? A modular design and front-end approach for

   the masses?

2. What is it about? Modular Design Best Practice or a

   way to optimise your workflow, maintainability and quality in design and front-end.

3. Why do we care? Design and front-end carries a whole

   lot of complexity these days. We need best practices and a common language for the team to commit to and work with.

4. Atomic Design Overview Atom Molecule Organism Template Page The atomic

   design concept introduces the following terms

5. Atomic Design Overview Atom Molecule Organism Template Page Containers Building

   Blocks You can group them into the building blocks and containers

6. Brad. Frost. Who? The guy who “invented” atomic design

7. Atom The “smallest” reusable thing Examples are Buttons, Input Fields,

   Headings, etc.

8. Molecule The “bigger” reusable thing built with the “smallest” things

   Examples are Search Box, Card Listing, Button Group, etc.

9. Organism A “biggest” thing built with the “smallest” and “bigger”

   things Examples are Headers, Footers, Flight Search, etc.

10. Template A container with rooms for all the things Examples

    are Home Layout, Blog Layout, etc.

11. Page A container filled with all the things Examples are

    Home Page, Blog Page, etc.

12. Pattern Libraries Atom Molecule Organism Template Page Building UI or

    pattern libraries is easier with a system like Atomic Design.

13. Pattern Libraries Atom Molecule Organism Template Page Start by adding

    atoms to your pattern library

14. Pattern Libraries Atom Molecule Organism Template Page Extend it by

    adding molecules

15. Pattern Libraries Atom Molecule Organism Template Page And if you

    strive for a complete library, add organisms as well

16. So, this is it now, right? Atom Molecule Organism Template

    Page

17. Not Quite Not everyone understands geek language or science ;)

18. Reality Atom? Molecule? Organism? WTF?

19. Alternatives S M L Layout Page Element Component Module Page

    Plan Page

20. How to design? Atom Molecule Organism Template Page

21. How to design? Atom Molecule Organism Template Page What customers

    like What developers like

22. Example

23. Tools PatternLab Frontify

24. Think in Systems and you’ll become a better designer or

    developer - maybe :)

25. Visit us on www.frontify.com Thanks. Follow me on Twitter @rogerdudler