🚀 Intro

Workshop will be recorded, and materials will be sent out
Brad Frost — web designer & developer, Pittsburgh, PA, author of Atomic Design
Design systems tooling has changed a lot since that book
Open source software for design systems:
- Pattern Lab
- styleguides.io
- Style Guide Guide (Gatsby + Jekyll)
"Design system" implies "here's this thing designers need to care about", but everyone must be involved in the process

Design system ≠ Design library
Sell → Kick Off → Plan → Design & Build → Launch → Maintain
- Selling is an ongoing process

🤔 Why Design Systems?

"More" → more products, services, functions, features in more mediums, across formats, countries, form factors......

A design system is the story of how your organization designs and builds digital products.