Design Systems for Developers

What it does

Master the collaboration between designers and developers required to code production-ready, scalable design system assets using design tokens and style dictionaries.

Design Systems for Developers is an ebook that teaches you the skills needed to code a design system that scales, covering design tokens and a style dictionary.

Lots of design token-related tips and tricks to learn in this book — from design tools to production, with an emphasis on the fact tools and automation are only useful if good communication is happening between designers and developers in the first place. Lots of design token-related tips and tricks to learn in this book — from design tools to production, with an emphasis on the fact tools and automation are only useful if good communication is happening between designers and developers in the first place. Developing a design system demands more than a UI component library and Storybook. As a developer working on a design system, you're responsible for extracting design specifications from…from leanpub.com

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