What’s in the book
Introducing design systems
Designing your design system
Jina Anne explains what to consider when you’re just getting started, like finding the right model.
Building your design system
Katie Sylor-Miller shares about making a strong, flexible, scalable base for your product design team.
Putting your design system into practice
Diana Mounter lays out practical strategies for sharing design systems and gaining company adoption.
Expanding your design system
Marco Suarez outlines why you should add vision statements, design principles, and voice and tone.
The future of design systems
Appendix
Plus—multiple video interviews and audio clips from lead designers at Shopify, Google, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
It wasn’t hard to get them to follow the guidelines, it was hard to get them to agree on the guidelines.
Lori Kaplan
Atlassian
About the authors
Marco Suarez
Product Designer, InVision
Marco Suarez has built design systems at InVision and Etsy. Now he guides companies through the process of designing and adopting their own design systems. He’s also one of the owners of Methodical Coffee, a cafe and roasting company in Greenville, SC.
- Currently listening to: Shadow Work by Mammal Hands
- Currently inspired by: Dieter Rams
- Cultural thing I’m lovin’: Third Plate by Dan Barber
Katie Sylor-Miller
Staff Software Engineer, Etsy
Katie advocates for and implements front-end best practices in collaboration with product engineers and designers. She’s the creator of ohshitgit.com.
Roy Stanfield
Design Principal, Airbnb
Roy enables platformization efforts by unifying UI/UX across products shared by Airbnb businesses. He’s also worked on the Design Language System (DLS).
- Currently listening to: This is War playlist on Spotify
- Currently inspired by: Gordon Matta-Clark and Joseph Beuys
- Cultural thing I’m lovin’: Twin Peaks: The Return
Diana Mounter
Design Infrastructure Manager, GitHub
Diana leads and specializes in design operations & systems with a background in user-centered design. She also organizes Design Systems Coalition NYC.
Jina Anne
Design systems advocate, Sushi & Robots
Jina worked on the Salesforce Lightning Design System and led Apple’s CSS architecture remodel for the Online Store. She hosts the Clarity conference.
- Currently listening to: My Clarity Playlist makes me happy. 🙂
- Currently inspired by: Jessica Hische is a big inspiration for me.
- Cultural thing I’m lovin’: The film Won’t You Be My Neighbor?