Awesome Design Systems 
A curated list of bookmarks, resources and articles about design systems focused on developers.
Design systems
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Awesome Design Systems
Design systems
A Design System is an ever evolving collection of reusable components, guided by rules that ensure consistency and speed, by being the single source of truth for any product development.
Design systems of some "known" companies
Atlassian Design Guidelines
End-to-end design language to create straightforward and beautiful experiences.
Firefox Photon Design System
Launch recognizable, enjoyable Firefox products and features faster.
GitHub Primer
Open-source it to allow the community to design and build their own projects.
GitLab Design System - Pajamas
Resources, components, and design guidelines behind GitLab.
Google Material Design
Create intuitive and beautiful products with Material Design.
IBM Carbon
Carbon is IBM's open-source design system for products and experiences.
Shopify Polaris
Our design system helps us work together to build a great experience for all of Shopify's merchants.
See more design systems here!
Design systems articles
More resources
Design system checklist
Build better design systems. An open-source checklist to help you plan, build and grow your design system.
Design Systems Survey
Designers and developers from more than 20 industries tell us about their design systems and their uses.
Design.system
Resources for the design systems community.
Super friendly
We help in-house teams make better digital products with design systems.
AI Web Design Codex
Knowledge base of 60 cross-linked guides on web design, UX, accessibility, and conversion, for humans and AI agents.
UI Design tools
Design tools
Figma
Helps teams create, test, and ship better designs from start to finish (cross-platform).
InVision
The digital product design platform powering the world's best user experiences.
Sketch
A design toolkit built to help you create your best work from your earliest ideas, through to final artwork (for macOS).
AdobeXD
Share your story with designs that look and feel like the real thing. Wireframe, animate, prototype, collaborate, and more — it’s all right here, all in one UI/UX design tool.
Marvel
Marvel has everything you need to bring ideas to life and transform how you create digital products with your team. Placing the power of design in everyone’s hands.
UXPin
Design and manage your entire UX/UI project in one tool.
Penpot
Penpot is the first Open Source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams.
Lunacy
A free graphic design tool with offline mode, built-in assets (icons, illustrations, photos), and real-time collaboration. Great alternative to Sketch and Figma (macOS, Windows, Linux).
See design tools plugins here!
Integrations
Abstract
Design collaboration without the chaos (for Sketch and XD on macOS).
Avocode
Helps you share design files, discuss changes, and code websites, mobile apps, & newsletters faster.
InVision Design System Manager
Powers creative and consistent design at scale with a central place to manage design and coded components.
Zeplin
The better way to share, organize and collaborate on designs—built with developers in mind.
Accessibility (a11y)
Accessibility for developers
5 simple ways developers can help improve and enforce website accessibility.
Stark
Empowers you to design with accessibility in mind from conception of brand to fruition of product. Contrast checker, colorblind simulation and color suggestions.
The A11Y Project
A community-driven effort to make web accessibility easier. See [resources](https://a11yproject.com/resources/) section.
InclusiveColors palette creator
Creates accessible custom Tailwind-style color palettes that pass WCAG contrast checks and can be exported to CSS/Figma/Adobe.
Nutilz Color Shades Generator
Generates a 50-950 tint/shade scale from any hex color and exports it as CSS variables, SCSS, or a Tailwind config.
Design tools articles
Design tokens
Design Tokens W3C Community Group
View repository on GitHub [here](https://github.com/design-tokens/community-group)!
DesignTokens.dev
Ship your design tokens without managing infrastructure.
Diez
Free & open-source developer toolkit for expressing visual styles that can be shared across codebases, native platforms, and teams.
Design Tokens Validator
Validate your design tokens against the Design Token Community Group spec.
Plugins
Abstract Connect
A Design tokens extractor for devs using Abstract & JavaScript.
Zeplin JSON export tokens
Design tokens Zeplin extension to generate your tokens in JSON format.
Tools
CSS Variable Generator
Generate scoped CSS custom properties with light and dark theme pairs, plus SCSS, Less, and JSON design-token exports.
Figmagic
Generate design tokens, export graphics, and extract design token-driven React components from your Figma documents.
Style Dictionary
A Style Dictionary uses design tokens to define styles once and use those styles on any platform or language.
Superposition
Extract design tokens from websites and use them in code and in your design tool. Use the design system you already have.
Theo
Theo is an abstraction for transforming and formatting Design Tokens.
Articles
See more design tokens info here!
Coding tools
- Backlight — With collaboration between developers and designers at heart, Backlight is a very complete coding platform where teams build, document, publish, scale and maintain Design Systems.
Pattern library
Styleguides and documentation
Stencil
Toolchain for building reusable, scalable Design Systems.
Zeroheight
Create beautiful living styleguides and document all your design system resources in one place. _[Learn about this](https://medium.com/zeroheight/zeroheight-3-0-b6643c347596)_.
Develop isolated components
Backlight
Collaborative platform to build Design Systems on the code side. Empower your front-end with an all-in-one solution to manage components. Quick start, speed-up collaboration.
Pattern Lab
Pattern Lab helps you and your team build thoughtful, pattern-driven user interfaces using atomic design principles.
React Styleguidist
Isolated React component development environment with a living style guide.
Storybook
Build bulletproof UI components faster. Storybook is an open source tool for developing UI components in isolation for React, Vue, and Angular. It makes building stunning UIs organized and efficient.
Styled System
Styled System is a collection of utility functions that add style props to your React components and allows you to control styles based on a global theme object.
Accessibility
Test component compliance with web accessibility standards.
Actions
Get UI feedback when an action is performed on an interactive element.
Backgrounds
Switch backgrounds to view components in different settings.
Console
Show console output like logs, errors, and warnings in the Storybook.
Docs
Document component usage and properties in Markdown.
Knobs
Interact with component inputs dynamically in the Storybook UI.
Links
Link stories together to build demos and prototypes with your UI components.
Source
View a story's source code to see how it works and paste into your app.
Storyshots
Take a code snapshot of every story automatically with Jest.
Viewport
Build responsive components by adjusting Storybook's viewport size and orientation.
Storybook addons
More info to Storybook here!
Pattern libraries articles
Testing
Unit & Regression test
Chromatic
Visual testing for React, Angular and Vue. Chromatic ensures consistency in UI components, down to the pixel. Every commit is automatically tested for visual changes in the cloud.
Sherlo
Visual testing platform for React Native Storybook. Captures screenshots on iOS and Android simulators in the cloud and detects visual changes automatically.
Testing library
Simple and complete testing utilities that encourage good testing practices.
Books
Acing the System Design Interview
Book that gives the insights, skills, and practice needed to ace the toughest system design interview questions by Zhiyong Tan.
Atomic Design
Atomic design methodology for creating design systems by Brad Frost.
Building Design Systems
Unify user experiences through a shared design language by Sarrah Vesselov and Taurie Davis.
Design systems
A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products by Alla Kholmatova (Smashing Magazine).
Front-End Style Guides
Creating and maintaining style guides for websites by Anna Debenham.
Frontend Architecture for Design Systems
A modern blueprint for scalable and sustainable websites by Micah Godbolt.
Introduction to Design Systems
A practical introduction to design systems by using React, Figma and Storybook by Emma Bostian
Modular Web Design
Creating Reusable Components for user experience design and documentation by Nathan Curtis.
Talks
Building Accessible Interfaces: Patterns And Techniques
Will be building and refactoring common UI components, and share a couple of techniques she often uses to build with accessibility in mind by Sara Soueidan.
Design Processes & Systems in Craft
Design shouldn't be a siloed practice, but a collaborative effort rooted in process. How do we get there? In this session, we'll look at how we can reframe our design approach to be more human-centric and systems-minded by Courtney Bradford.
Design Systems - The State of the Web
Conversation about the role of design systems in modern web development and how they can change the dynamics between designer and developer by Adam Argyle (Design Advocate at Google).
Design Systems
Women of React conf by [Neha Sharma](https://twitter.com/hellonehha).
How To Build a Design System | UXPin
Will teach you how to build a UX Design System using the UX Pin prototyping & design platform.
Introducing Design Systems Into Chaos
Shares practical examples on where to begin to set up a design system, what to prioritize, and how to make a big impact to customers and colleagues, to help you introduce systems that bring order to chaos by Diana Mounter (Design Systems Lead at GitHub).
Jina Anne - Designing a Design System
Will share strategies for how to approach, design and build an effective design system; how to successfully maintain the system to ensure ongoing usefulness by Jina (Lead Designer on the Design Systems team at Salesforce UX).
Level up your Design System with styled-system
Women of React conf by [Taley'a Mirza](https://twitter.com/TaleyaMirza).
Maintaining Design Systems
Helps you learn how to keep your system and the products it serves in sync and understand how to maintain and evolve your design system to give your users get the best possible experience by Brad Frost (Front-end designer).