UXPin and Whitespace examined the main challenges of design systems and design operations in enterprise-level companies. Want to see the results? 👉 Download the report for free! What would you do to build a design system once again? How would you plan its adoption and drive its scale? What’s the future for design systems and operations? We asked around nineteen design system leaders and contributors those questions and compiled it into a single report that gets you an insider’s perspective into enterprise design teams.

Codification is an integral part of evangelizing a design system and getting adoption from teams. A design system’s documentation must educate teams about usage, company policies, best practices, governance, and branding with examples and tutorials. Enhance collaboration between design and development while creating a single source of truth with UXPin…

Read the full article that contains 11 lessons on UXPin’s blog: 11 Powerful Lessons on Building and Scaling an Enterprise Design System. 1. On preparing for a design system Delivery Hero’s product team started with a design audit. The audit report revealed many user interface inconsistencies, including: Several different CTAs No typography styling standards Multiple icon styles …

The design handoff is a critical part of any project. For many designers and engineers, the design handoff is a stressful experience. If either team misses something, it could result in product defects and delays. While it’s primarily the responsibility of the UX team to produce prototypes, assets, and documentation…

Design teams understand the value of a design system. But creating and maintaining a design system can be time-consuming and costly — meaning you’re less likely to get buy-in from management and stakeholders without presenting metrics proving a design system’s value. But how do designers quantify design system metrics to: …

Over the last few decades, companies have learned that they need to embrace digital transformation and release products that meet users’ expectations. As a result, they have added a lot of UX professionals to their teams. …

Developing a design system is not about aesthetics and making things look pretty. It’s a powerful design tool that improves cohesion and consistency, reduces time-to-market, and enhances collaboration between teams. In Design Systems: Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Your Own, we succinctly define a design system and its purpose as follows: …

Version control has been a best practice among software engineers for decades. It allows them to collaborate efficiently while doing the work independently. With the rise of design systems, version control has become an essential part of cross-functional collaboration and maintaining a single source of truth across the organization. 📚…

Did your design turn out any different from the prototype? If it happened, most probably it was because devs struggled with translating your design into code. 🤔 What if they did not need much translating? 🤔 What if they could share the same components? 🤩 Component-driven prototyping makes it possible! What is component-driven prototyping? …