It's live 🎉
The Radix Themes component library by @radix_ui now has its Figma version, available for free on the @figma community!
❖ 30+ components
🍭 1.000+ Figma variables
✨ All the variants & properties from the original library
https://t.co/5MmogX3ctR
#designsystem hot take: Design systems distill & magnify healthy practices & patterns while exposing & challenging unhealthy ones. The amount of resistance a healthy DS team experiences is directly related to the unhealthiness of the organization’s established ways of working.
🧪 Design system doc search
🔎 Search within public #DesignSystems doc sites (103 currently*), find guidance and examples from the community, image search, even autocompletes.
https://t.co/54gVkC9xpp
*Still indexing, some may choose to block search crawler🤷
#designsystem
As design elements are created, they are often named after real-world metaphors. Over time those real-world metaphorical connections get lost. Megan Ng has taken the time to document the metaphors from common UI components.
https://t.co/LDopyapaG0
Maps twist our perception of the world
Here are 20 to rethink it:
1. Countries closer to the equator (~poorer) seem smaller than they are
(map by @neilrkaye)
@mialoira “Design systems” is WAY more than the AI’able assets and doc. It can help with the “above the water” stuff. But the “beneath the water” is the real work.
@badimon There's a super interesting documentary series on Disney Plus called Inside Pixar that includes an episode about this team. Fascinating stuff.