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Back to EpisodesDesign Systems with Brad Frost
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
Description
In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Brad Frost about how to implement design systems in small and large scale projects, best practices around naming things, keeping everything in sync across different codebases, and how design systems help projects.
Show Notes- 00:32 Welcome
- 01:02 Syntax Brought to you by Sentry
- 01:34 Introducing Brad Frost
- Brad Frost.com
- Atomic Design by Brad Frost
- Brad (@brad_frost) on Twitter
- Brad on LinkedIn
- Brad on Mastodon
- Brad on YouTube
- Brad on GitHub
- Brad Frost on CodePen
- Big Medium | Design for What’s Next
- 06:43 What is a design system?
- 12:12 How do you keep design and code in sync?
- Material Design
- Shopify Polaris
- Carbon Design System
- The Design System Ecosystem | Brad Frost
- 16:13 How do you use Shopify, WordPress, React, etc. through a design system?
- 19:41 How is CSS handled?
- 25:40 What’s the benefit of going all in on web components?
- 29:13 Do small startups need to worry about design systems?
- 33:03 How do design tokens work?
- 38:17 How do you deal with pushback on design systems?
- 41:46 How do you go outside the guidelines?
- 45:24 What system do you use for naming things?
- 49:34 How do you best document your language choices?
- 51:09 Supper Club questions
- Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller: Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright: 9781603580557: Amazon.com: Books
- Miriam Eric Suzanne
- Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design - Famous for stating the obvious.
- 57:54 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××