Over time, systems happen.

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In August, we released a major redesign of slack.com, and we want to give you a peek behind-the-scenes. Rebuilding our marketing website was a massive project that took careful coordination across a variety of teams, departments, and agencies. We implemented a redesign while overhauling all the under-the-hood code. Our aim was to address a few […]

It's hard to style basic web components if you've never done it before. You want your buttons and forms to look good and also be cross…

Building a (presidential) design system

We just created a design system for a huge organization and established a CSS architecture we're quite pleased with. It's one of the first times I've ever gotten to a project's finish line without wishing I'd done at least a few things differently. So I thought it would be great to share how we went

Learn about the technical decisions behind the design system’s architecture, code conventions, documentation, and distribution.

Just about a year ago, I started working at Allstate. Myself and my team of two UI Engineers and a Design Lead established a Pattern…

New Relic engineering teams sometimes encounter CSS versioning conflicts—here’s how we solve the problem.

Our Community, not Companies, Should Build Pattern Libraries

Creating and documenting a product design system

Writing scalable CSS is hard! We've taken a formalized approach toward writing it, to make it simple, readable, and predictable.

Finding common pain, articulating value and selling the vision

Brad Frost recently wrote about managing technology-agnostic design systems. In his post, he recommends using a technology that doesn’t tie itself to any specific framework. When I was at Yahoo!,...

The shiny new The Times and The Sunday Times has just been released. I thought it would be a good idea to write an article about the UI…

Growing a product is an eternal balancing act. Applying a Design Systems approach to every level of your product – not just the UI – will help you to maintain control over that balance and prevent any one force from dominating too much.

Build UIs in a better way: from the component up

Design systems make deciding in the browser much easier if you have the right ingredients.

The Media Object pattern is: image thingy on the left, heading and text on the right. That's what Nicole Sullivan called it and the name stuck. It's a

Tips for designing and building a consistent design system.

Building complex UIs one component at a time

In developing a component-based interface, how we decide to construct our components can sometimes make a considerable difference. Consider this carousel design. Carousel with multiple car...

Our Community, not Companies, Should Build Pattern Libraries

Discussing the problems we have to keep applications in sync with our design system. Changes in CSS and JavaScript is one thing…

Establish a process to deliver on the quality you promise

Language defines the life of components. A “blue button” will work until the button is no longer blue—and then the name won’t make sense anymore. The pattern will have no reason to exist if blue buttons have fallen out of use

The following is a guest post by Ahmad Shadeed. Ahmad has put together a ton of examples to show off how using relative units can benefit us. I think a

Embracing the difference in pattern types is the key to making a modular design system infinitely more scalable.

This is my second “Fun with CSS” post, maybe this should become a series. But anyway, I had watched the video of Ethan Marcotte‘s talk at An Event Apart called Laziness in the Time of Responsive Design, and was fascinated by his progressive enhancement demo.