Building Design Systems: Unify User Experiences through a Shared Design Language

© Sarrah Vesselov and Taurie Davis 2019

Sarrah Vesselov and Taurie DavisBuilding Design Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4514-9_7

7. A GitLab Case Study

Sarrah Vesselov¹  and Taurie Davis²

(1)

Dade City, FL, USA

(2)

Portland, OR, USA

 

Throughout this book, we have combined our collective experiences to share what we’ve learned while working on design systems throughout our careers. The following case study is a look into our roles, challenges, and successes while working together on the GitLab Design System. Our goal with this chapter is to provide you with concrete experiences from which you can draw parallels while working on your system.

Background

GitLab began as an open source, web-based Git repository manager and quickly grew into a single ...