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UX Foundations: Style Guides and Design Systems

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Overview

Learn how to create a style guide and design system that agencies, contractors, and staff can use to create user experiences that fit your brand.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Setting the bar with style guides and design systems
1. What Are Style Guides and Design Systems?
  • Communicating user experience standards
  • More than just a couple of documents
  • The design system
  • The style guide
  • Where to start
2. Style Guide Basics
  • Why have a style guide?
  • Who in a company uses a style guide?
  • What about small companies?
3. What's in a Style Guide?
  • Brand and company philosophy
  • Defining your audience
  • Personality and tone of voice
  • Visual elements
  • Links to resources
4. Creating Your Style Guide
  • Check out your existing resources
  • Get buy-in from relevant groups
  • Start writing
  • Promoting and enforcing the guide
5. Design System Basics
  • Controlling interface chaos
  • What a design system looks like
  • Who is a design system for?
6. Components of a Design System
  • Design philosophy
  • Index of components
  • Submission and commenting system
  • The underlying process
7. Creating Your Design System
  • Justifying the need
  • Setting up a team to build your system
  • Deciding on a platform
  • Build, review, and release schedules
  • Populating the system
  • Socializing the idea
  • Politics of adoption
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Chris Nodder

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