Proof of Concept: How We Learn
When we start working with a new organization on a design system, there’s a lot we don’t know. We need to understand the organization, the product, and the team.
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Design Systems: The Antidote to AI Sameness
AI tools are making it faster than ever to build an interface, and faster than ever to build the exact same interface everyone else is building.
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Design Systems That Get Used
Everyone plans for how difficult it is to build a design system that scales. Almost nobody plans for how hard it is to get people to use one.
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Finding and Fixing Design System Drift
Does your Figma file still match what shipped? Explore how design drift happens, why it’s not a failure, and how to reconcile it before it compounds.
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AI at Work: Design Systems
Design systems have always been about finding the right balance between rules and freedom, structure and speed.
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Who Owns Your Design System?
Maintaining a design system is a significant task, and how you structure the team that does that work may be helping or hurting your cause.
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Consistency & Flexibility in Design Systems
The best design systems don’t choose between consistency and flexibility — they make room for both.
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Writing in Sync: Design System Content
Design systems help create a shared language within an organization, but without good documentation, no one will be able to speak that language.
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The Accidental Design System
We never set out to build a design system for NCSBN. It started as a simple pattern library for a single website, nothing more. But over time, it took on a life of its own, growing and evolving until, before we knew it, we had something that resembled the beginnings of a design system.
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Hello curious design system thinkers!
Regular Foundry readers know that Sparkbox has been deeply engaged with design system thinking for many years.
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