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Life After Design Systems

by Kathryn Grayson Nanz December 09, 2024

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Meet the ThemeBuilder Figma Import

We need Figma design tokens to become CSS variables. Moving those values manually from Figma into our stylesheets is painful … to say the least. Thankfully, there’s a better way with ThemeBuilder!

by Kathryn Grayson Nanz
August 25, 2023 Share
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A Developer’s Guide to Implementing a Design System (Part 2)

For a design system to truly be integrated and applied to an application, it needs to live in the codebase as much as it lives in the design software. Thankfully, we have lots of tools—like Figma, Storybook and the Kendo UI component library—to help us bridge that gap and make sure we’re keeping things in sync.

by Kathryn Grayson Nanz
August 18, 2023 Share
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Why Designers Should Care About Telerik and Kendo UI Component Libraries

Documentation for everyone, tools that meet you where you prefer to work, and software that makes editing, previewing, sharing and implementing design changes easier than ever before! What’s not to love?

by Kathryn Grayson Nanz
August 11, 2023 Share
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A Developer’s Guide to Implementing a Design System (Part 1)

With tools like Figma, design system tokens, components, icons and more can all be built right into the flow of a designer’s primary workspace … but what does that look like for a developer? Let’s break it down.

by Kathryn Grayson Nanz
August 10, 2023 Share
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Implementing the 5 Key Principles for Creating Effective UIs—Part 3

How to know if your app’s user experience is effective: Do your users know what to do next? Part 3 shows how to organize and test your UIs.

by Peter Vogel
August 04, 2023 Share