Consistency & Flexibility in Design Systems
The best design systems don’t choose between consistency and flexibility — they make room for both.
Design Systems
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The Problem with “Ready for Dev”
Our tooling gets better every day, but by changing our mindset about how development and design can collaborate and contribute to each other’s work, we’ll deliver a better product to our users.
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Writing in Sync: Design System Content
Design systems help create a shared language within an organization, but without good documentation, no one will be able to speak that language.
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The Accidental Design System
We never set out to build a design system for NCSBN. It started as a simple pattern library for a single website, nothing more. But over time, it took on a life of its own, growing and evolving until, before we knew it, we had something that resembled the beginnings of a design system.
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Design System Middle Management
The shape of your design system team and the hierarchy it falls within can greatly impact the way you approach the work. A key role to the success of your program is the middle manager.
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Hello curious design system thinkers!
Regular Foundry readers know that Sparkbox has been deeply engaged with design system thinking for many years.
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Uncomfortable Truths of Design Systems
Design systems are powerful, but not perfect. Sparkbox experts share some hard truth about what’s involved in building and operating a successful system.
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Iterating on Atomic Design
Atomic design is widely referenced when discussing design system organization, but is it the ideal solution for every modern system?
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Design System Audits: Why and How
Sparkbox has a decade of experience working with design systems for some of the world’s most influential companies, from Goodyear, to DocuSign, to Gap, Inc.
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KUB’s Journey To Self-Sustainability
Knoxville Utilities Board is the municipal utility for the Knoxville area in Tennessee, serving Knox County and the seven surrounding counties.
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