Design systems are often seen as a way to improve accessibility. Some even say that you get accessibility for free by using a design system.
But what do you have to do, to make your design system accessible?
The consumers of a design system, designers & developers, do get accessible…
In this article I will talk about the known and not so well known benefits of implementing a design system. And before you get the wrong idea: no, you can’t fire all designers. A design system is an ever-evolving, living system. …
You may know what design tokens are and what benefits they can bring. But you may wonder how exactly to start using them and how you can integrate them into your workflow. I this article you will learn just that:
Design tokens ease building products by improving the communication around design. They help scale your product by separating design decisions from specific platforms & technologies.
They improve communication with build-in documentation & promoting design decisions out of design files.
Design tokens are a very “hot” topic at the moment. You…
Starting to work as a designer, I couldn’t believe my luck. People would pay me to explore, experiment and try things. All I had to do is keep at it until all the pieces fit together perfectly.
What I didn’t realise back then is, that this is a technique called…
According to gestalt psychology, we need to organise what we see to make sense of the world. Without using patterns to order out vision, we would overwhelm our brain. The gestalt psychologists formalised those patterns as the gestalt principles.
The gestalt principles (of grouping) are part of the most important…
In nowadays it is impossible to write frontend code without a build tool. We work with typescript and sass, bundle and optimise our code. Gulp was my choice for the last 3 years. But lately I have been growing frustrated with the overhead it brings. Doing what you want can…
In this article I explore the three most important aspects fo making your design files easy and enjoyable to work with: naming, versioning and organisation.
Although I focus on sketch files, most of the ideas are applicable for any type of design file. …
Recently gestalt theory (also gestaltism) has gained immense popularity, especially for designers. In fact it seems to be in trend. However, gestalt principles are also very helpful and designers should know about them.
Most authors discuss gestalt principles in an abstract form. Others focus on print design. There are few…
In nowadays it is impossible to write frontend code without a build tool. We work with typescript and sass, bundle and optimise our code. Gulp was my choice for the last 3 years. But lately I have been growing frustrated with the overhead it brings. Doing what you want can…
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