Design Systems and Living Styleguides
About the course
Former SitePoint head of content Adam Roberts and SitePoint designer Alex Walker help you get your head around the useful and intuitive selection of tools and techniques that is design systems and living styleguides. Using their combined expertise and easy-to-follow style they’ll take a deep dive with you through the following:
- The concepts behind design systems and living style guides;
- An examination of some good examples and how we’ve applied them at SitePoint; and
- An examination of some pre-built solutions you can use to get started in this area.
This guide will also provide you with resources on building your own design systems and living styleguides, along with advice on the long-term challenge of maintaining and evolving them.
Authors
Adam Roberts
Adam Roberts is a content strategist at Stax and writes Parentheses, a weekly digest of things that will enhance your life. He has a beard and will talk to you about beer and Star Wars, if you let him.
Alex Walker
Alex Walker has directed SitePoint’s design thinking for two decades through frontend design, 50+ book covers and over 200 articles. His dream is to one day use CSS and SVG to create cold fusion (the process not the language). You can find him from time to time on Twitter.
Course Outline
Chapter 1: What Are Design Systems?
Chapter 2: Material Design
Chapter 3: Building a Design System
Chapter 4: Living Styleguides