Always Twisted http://www.alwaystwisted.com/ Slightly bizarre ramblings of a front-end developer. Design Tokens, Components, and 24Ways http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-tokens-components-and-24ways http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-tokens-components-and-24ways It’s nearly Christmas, It’s time for 24ways. This year my article was all about Design Tokens

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Design Systems London 2019 - Bernardo Raposo http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-bernardo-raposo http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-bernardo-raposo In Bernardo’s talk - The human side of a design system: creating a common language for designers, developers and managers - they talked about what aspects there are of a design system and what tools can be used.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:38:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - Jon Reidy http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-jon-reidy http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-jon-reidy In Jon’s talk – Evolution of the HSBC’s design system - from decentralisation to automation – talked about the scale of HSBC, it’s global digital design system, and how they’re looking at AI to help reviews, testing, and creating things.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 17:06:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - Sue Andor http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-sue-andor http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-sue-andor Sue’s talk - Lessons learned from creating and working with design systems for expert users - how we should be looking at the other side of the things created what the internal systems should look like and how they should or could be different

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:49:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - Laura González http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-laura-gonzlez http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-laura-gonzlez Laura talked about – Guerrilla design systems – where they talked about creating a design system for a project where there wasn’t really the budget for one. Plus other things.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:47:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - James and James http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-james-and-james http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-james-and-james In their talk – Design Systems: Before you begin – James and James talked about what questions you should ask when starting to create a design system.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:45:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - Lily Dart http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-lily-dart http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-lily-dart In – The Good, the Bad, the Culture – Lily talked about going with and against the grain of the official culture of your company when building a Design System.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:19:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - Shaun Bent http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-shaun-bent http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-shaun-bent In Shaun’s talk – Reimagining Design Systems at Spotify – shared the history of Spotyify’s Design System, the mistakes made and the learnings made along the way.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:18:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - Kathleen McMahon http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-kathleen-mcmahon http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-kathleen-mcmahon Kathleen’s talk – Accessibility-flavored React components make your design system delicious! – discussed making accessibility the first requirement of being able to use a component in production.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 12:31:00 +0000
Design Systems London 2019 - Anja Klüver http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-anja-klver http://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-systems-london-2019-anja-klver In Anja’s talk - Design as an Agent for Change - The Business Case for Design Systems - they spoke about how we can look at the ROI of creating a Design System and how we can measure it.

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Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:33:00 +0000