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Diana MacDonaldPractical UI Patterns for Design Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4938-3_4

4. Patterns in design systems

Diana MacDonald1 
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Victoria, VIC, Australia
 

There is a saying that every nice piece of work needs the right person in the right place at the right time.

—Benoit Mandelbrot

In this chapter, we’ll clarify some terms around patterns and design systems, look at growing a design system, and along the way we’ll discuss some decisions you might need to make.

What’s in a name? The devil is in the details

A word of warning: language is a fickle thing and some people will attribute different meaning to one word, some people will use different words to describe one idea, and the meaning of all those words ...

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