Navigating design system contribution can be challenging, often demanding coordinated efforts from multiple stakeholders. This article serves as a comprehensive guide, laying down the structured roadmap of a design system contribution model to standardize practices and ensure quality. From identifying key stakeholders to creating an agile workflow for contributions, it covers every aspect, including how
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Code or Design – Which is a Better Source of Truth?
The global design system’s community, Into Design Systems, hosted a webinar in July 2023 where guest speaker Marcel Bertram talked about “Systematic Design With Code.” Marcel made some interesting comparisons about designing using vector-based vs. code-based design tools and how organizations can use the latter to create a single source of truth. Into Design Systems
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Multi-Brand Design System – How to Get Started
Developing digital products from scratch requires a lot of resources. Multi-brand design systems enable organizations to build once, duplicate, and customize–saving thousands of design and development hours. This centralized approach to design systems means organizations can share costs across different brands while providing a framework to enter markets with new products much faster. Sync your
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Figma Component Library vs UXPin Component Library – Which is Better?
Figma Component Libraries are a great way to create and share reusable UI elements with team members. Designers can use Figma components to build user interfaces and prototypes, and they help to maintain consistency across projects. However, Figma Component Libraries have some limitations, such as the inability to create interactive prototypes. UXPin Merge is a
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Figma Design System vs UXPin Design System – A Deep Comparison
Design systems streamline the product design process, ensuring consistency and scalability across teams. Figma and UXPin, offer robust solutions, each with unique features tailored to different needs. This article explores Figma’s Team Library, its benefits, and potential drawbacks. We also present an alternative to Team Library with UXPin’s Design Systems and Merge technology. Key takeaways:
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How to Bring Bootstrap Components to UXPin – npm Integration Walkthrough
UXPin’s npm Integration empowers design teams to prototype at a higher fidelity and with code-like functionality. Component-driven prototyping in UXPin allows designers to create prototypes that previously required engineers to code. With npm Integration, teams can bring component libraries to UXPin’s design tool and leverage full interactivity of shared components without complicated technical setup. Let’s
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Bring MUI Components to UXPin – npm Integration Walkthrough
With UXPin’s npm Integration, designers can import npm component libraries to build fully functioning prototypes. These high-fidelity prototypes enable designers to test features, interactions, and functionality impossible to achieve with traditional vector-based design tools. Build fully interactive prototypes with real building blocks of your app. Try UXPin Merge and sync MUI with Merge and bridge
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Version Control for Design – Why Is it Worth Having it?
Version control has been a software engineering best practice for decades. A version control system (VCS) allows engineers to collaborate efficiently while working independently. With the rise of design systems, version control has become an essential part of cross-functional collaboration and maintaining a single source of truth across the organization. UXPin Merge’s Version Control System
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Storybook-UXPin: Review of Merge Integration
I decided to share my impressions on UXPin Merge Storybook integration and write about how it influenced the designer-developer collaboration in our team. Merge is a part of UXPin – that’s technology providing two main integrations with developers’ tools (Git and Storybook). It allows you to quickly prototype using ready UI code components that are
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The Atlassian Design System – Creating Design Harmony at Scale
What is Atlassian Design System? Atlassian Design System, ATL for short, is a design system which mission is to create simple, intuitive, and beautiful experiences for their end-users. Atlassian’s products include Jira, Trello, and Confluence, so their design system needs to work across those products plus serve for people who built internal product and more.
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How to Scale Design Systems with UXPin – A Practical Guide
A design system serves as a single source of truth, grouping all elements that allow teams to design, prototype, test, and develop a product. This system includes pattern libraries, coded component libraries, code samples, APIs, and documentation. Organizations use the four-level design system maturity scale to gauge the evolution of design systems. The ultimate goal
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8 Design System Best Practices that Top Enterprise Companies Follow
Together with Whitespace, we hosted a webinar for hundreds of tech professionals titled: How to Overcome Challenges of Scaling a Design System? DesignOps and Product Design Leadership expert Dave Malouf moderated the event with speakers from two enterprise multinationals: This webinar provided interesting insights into how two enterprise giants approach design systems, including maintenance, scaling,
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8 Signs That You Need a Design System
Design systems have become indispensable for product teams in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. A well-implemented design system improves visual consistency and coherence and fosters better teamwork and communication among design teams, developers, and stakeholders. It accelerates the design and development process, enhancing scalability and maintainability and improving user experiences and product quality. This article
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FinTech Design System – How to Start it?
FinTech design systems help product teams solve fundamental usability issues while moving fast to stay ahead of the competition. But, building a FinTech design system requires significant resources to create, scale, and mature. Create a single source of truth for your FinTech app with the world’s most advanced design and prototyping tool. Visit our Merge
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What is Design System Testing? Definition, Benefits, and Process
Testing is vital for ensuring your design system provides the tools, guidance, components, and support teams need to deliver high-quality products efficiently. Design system testing assesses every aspect of the component library, documentation, syntax, accessibility, and more to ensure it meets the organization’s standards and expectations. This article explores design system testing, when to test,
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