Building a React design system from scratch requires careful planning and consideration. Input from multiple departments and stakeholders is crucial for creating a component library that serves the organization and its end users. This article is an introduction to React design systems and how to approach component development, documentation, governance, design tools, and more. We
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Version Control for Design – Why Is it Worth Having it?
Version control has been a software engineering best practice for decades. A version control system (VCS) allows engineers to collaborate efficiently while working 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. UXPin Merge’s Version Control System
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Storybook-UXPin: Review of Merge Integration
I decided to share my impressions on UXPin Merge Storybook integration and write about how it influenced the designer-developer collaboration in our team. Merge is a part of UXPin – that’s technology providing two main integrations with developers’ tools (Git and Storybook). It allows you to quickly prototype using ready UI code components that are
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These Storybook Examples Will Inspire Your Component Library
Now that UXPin has a Storybook integration that breaks down design-dev inconsistencies and makes it easier than ever to manage your UI components library, you might want to take some time to look at Storybook examples. Plenty of world-renowned websites use Storybook. Look at some of the best Storybook examples that you can use as
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The Atlassian Design System – Creating Design Harmony at Scale
What is Atlassian Design System? Atlassian Design System, ATL for short, is a design system which mission is to create simple, intuitive, and beautiful experiences for their end-users. Atlassian’s products include Jira, Trello, and Confluence, so their design system needs to work across those products plus serve for people who built internal product and more.
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11 Best Material UI Alternatives
Material UI, developed and maintained by MUI, is a popular React component library that implements Google’s Material Design guidelines. It offers a comprehensive set of reusable and customizable components, such as buttons, cards, menus, form elements, predefined styles, and themes. The library promotes a modular and structured approach to building user interfaces, enabling developers to
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How to Scale Design Systems with UXPin – A Practical Guide
A design system serves as a single source of truth, grouping all elements that allow teams to design, prototype, test, and develop a product. This system includes pattern libraries, coded component libraries, code samples, APIs, and documentation. Organizations use the four-level design system maturity scale to gauge the evolution of design systems. The ultimate goal
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8 Design System Best Practices that Top Enterprise Companies Follow
Together with Whitespace, we hosted a webinar for hundreds of tech professionals titled: How to Overcome Challenges of Scaling a Design System? DesignOps and Product Design Leadership expert Dave Malouf moderated the event with speakers from two enterprise multinationals: This webinar provided interesting insights into how two enterprise giants approach design systems, including maintenance, scaling,
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8 Signs That You Need a Design System
Design systems have become indispensable for product teams in today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape. A well-implemented design system improves visual consistency and coherence and fosters better teamwork and communication among design teams, developers, and stakeholders. It accelerates the design and development process, enhancing scalability and maintainability and improving user experiences and product quality. This article
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FinTech Design System – How to Start it?
FinTech design systems help product teams solve fundamental usability issues while moving fast to stay ahead of the competition. But, building a FinTech design system requires significant resources to create, scale, and mature. Create a single source of truth for your FinTech app with the world’s most advanced design and prototyping tool. Visit our Merge
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What is Design System Testing? Definition, Benefits, and Process
Testing is vital for ensuring your design system provides the tools, guidance, components, and support teams need to deliver high-quality products efficiently. Design system testing assesses every aspect of the component library, documentation, syntax, accessibility, and more to ensure it meets the organization’s standards and expectations. This article explores design system testing, when to test,
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Creating a Design System in UXPin – The 3-Minute Guide
There has never been a better time to build a design system. The rise of design systems has created more jobs in the digital product development domain, increasing the need for UX designers, product managers, and software developers. Developers and designers are among the most desired people on the market. Companies worldwide have a never-ending
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Advice to New Design System Managers from 5 Experts
We sat down with five experts to gather insights and advice new Design Systems Managers should consider when taking on a design system position. Introducing our five collaborators for this article: This article was a collaborative effort with the experts and UXPin’s team. UXPin Merge is a code-based design technology bridging the gap between design
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5 Key Design System Challenges and Lessons Learned
A report UXPin co-published with Whitespace identified five enterprise design system challenges at some of the world’s leading organizations. Within these five challenges, the common thread is “how do we achieve a single source of truth?” This challenging question pertains to everything from design system documentation and components to tools and governance. Organizations struggle to
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Top 3 Design System Structures
Many teams envision creating a design system as a difficult, time-consuming project. It forces team members to audit their user interface, create a repository of design system elements and design guidelines and combine it in a way it’s usable for the entire organization It’s not the only way you structure a design system, though. There
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