Chapter 7
Creating Design Libraries
IN THIS CHAPTER
Saving a reusable item as a component
Saving text styles and colors to a library
Sharing a library
Editing a library
Using UI kits
This chapter is all about saving time and keeping your artwork consistent. By creating components, you can save an object in a form that can be dragged and dropped right unto your artboard and then dynamically updated as needed. In this chapter, you also find out how to use existing UI kits that make it easy to locate design patterns for popular platforms such as iOS, Android, and Windows.
Saving Reusable Objects as Components
If you find that you are copying and pasting your UI objects, you should consider converting them to components. Components are linked objects that can be reused across all artboards in a document, or even multiple documents if saved in a library. Because they are dynamically linked, changes to one reflect across all instances.
In this next set of steps, we use the icon artwork ...
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