Design System Books & Articles

A list of articles and books about creating and maintaining design systems. Go grab a coffee and start reading. 🥸

Learn to build purposeful design systems that support and strengthen your team’s creativity.

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Expressive Design Systems

A free e-book with insights and first-hand experiences from experts who have gone through the journey.

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designbetter.co/design-systems-handbook

The Atomic Design details all that goes into creating and maintaining robust design systems.

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atomicdesign.bradfrost.com

A practical guide to creating effective design languages for digital products.

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Design Systems by Alla Kholmatova’s

Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global.

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Adonella H. Meadows

The Laying the Foundations is a comprehensive guide to creating, documenting, and maintaining design systems.

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designsystemfoundations.com

This case study aims to chronicle how we created a design system at WeWork.

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Plasma design system

An practical guide of how to create a complete motion design systeem by Aviad Shahar - Tendler

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Motion Design System

Not all design systems are equally effective. Some can generate coherent user experiences, others produce confusing patchwork designs...

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Alla Kholmatova

Thinking in Design by Donella H. Meadows from 2008 is an all time classic on systems thinking!

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Thinking in Design

In Design That Scales, design systems expert Dan Mall draws on his extensive experience helping some of the world’s most recognizable brands create design practices.

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UX/UI Design Books & Articles

A collection of good books and articles about UX / UI Design Principles.

Universal Principles of UX
100 Timeless Strategies to Creative Positive Interactions between People and Technology.

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Irena Pereyra