AI at Work: Design Systems
Design systems have always been about finding the right balance between rules and freedom, structure and speed.
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Design systems have always been about finding the right balance between rules and freedom, structure and speed.
Maintaining a design system is a significant task, and how you structure the team that does that work may be helping or hurting your cause.
The best design systems don’t choose between consistency and flexibility — they make room for both.
Design systems help create a shared language within an organization, but without good documentation, no one will be able to speak that language.
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.
Regular Foundry readers know that Sparkbox has been deeply engaged with design system thinking for many years.
Design systems are powerful, but not perfect. Sparkbox experts share some hard truth about what’s involved in building and operating a successful system.
Atomic design is widely referenced when discussing design system organization, but is it the ideal solution for every modern system?
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.
Sparkbox is proud to have had a multi-year project with Gap, Inc., beginning in 2014 and extending until the post-pandemic era.

Katie Jennings
Vice President of Business Development