Building design systems: unify user experiences through a shared design language

摘要

One rarely comes across books dedicated to a niche topic like design systems. User experience is of the utmost importance in this digital era, so a book on building design systems is a precious resource for both new and experienced user experience designers and user interface developers. The authors have taken special care to weave important concepts with their practical wisdom in working with organizations such as GitLab. The book has eight main chapters. The first two chapters focus on the introduction and history of design systems. Chapter 1 discusses the rise of component-based architectures along with the agile movement. The second chapter discusses six areas that constitute a design system. While design systems are important, they are an investment (costs money) from an organization's perspective. Hence, an approach is provided to start building a design system, maintaining it, and ensuring it does not fail.