User Experience Design

CHAPTER 42DESIGN SYSTEM PLAY: How do I build and scale experience designs with high consistency and quality?

A quality design system empowers design and engineering teams. But while most people understand the impact and value that design systems bring, they don’t know how to create them. Rookie practices write up a style guide and call it done. There is much more to a design system.

This play will help you understand and build an effective design system that enables all your stakeholders to build consistent and quality experience designs.

Why Do You Need the Design System play?

This play will allow your business to:

• Elucidate the design principles that drive your design;
• Build a product with efficiency and consistency;
• Build scalable products;
• Increase productivity by decreasing redundant work.

Who Are the Key players in the Design System play?

ROLE	WHO’S INVOLVED	RESPONSIBILITIES
DRIVER	Experience practitioners (interaction designer, visual designer)	Document the design principles that will drive the design; Document the templates at a screen level and describes their anatomy; Document the visual foundations, components, and patterns with their behavior and interdependencies; Specify the designs; Create an inventory of all the deliverables and the final ...