Atomic Design

My coworker, Ryan Johnston, turned me on to Atomic Design as we were working on the digital library for corporate projects. I had been familiar with brand guidelines and reusable code but this took it to the next level. It truly took the individual pieces such as font and then scaled them up to form elements to banners to pages to sites.

Atomic Design by Brad Frost

Design Language System

Airbnb has this down to a super lean process where their design language system is so tight that they can take a sketch and convert it to code across devices. Check it out!

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• Polaris — Shopify’s Design System
• IBM’s Design System
• Airbnb’s Design Language System
• Fluent — Microsoft’s Design Language System
• Nachos — Trello’s Design Language System
• Lightning Design System — Salesforce
• Apple’s Design Language System