Design Systems make many promises: for more consistent interfaces, clearer visuals, enhanced understanding of the layout through repeating patterns, increased productivity and what not. I believe that the true value of design systems is that they allow one to fail faster, or if I have to put it in other words, to speed up his iteration cycle, spend more time collecting user feedback in the early stages of product design and get to the sweet spot of a product market fit much faster.

2. THE TRUE PURPOSE OF
DESIGN SYSTEMS

3. THE TRUE PURPOSE OF
DESIGN SYSTEMS

4. Stefan Ivanov
Sr UX Architect
Infragistics
Developer Tools & UX Tools
Speaker
UX Educator
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5. A set of connected patterns and shared
practices, coherently organized to serve
the purposes of a digital product
Alla Kholmatova

6. Design Systems
Consistency
Clarity
Efficiency
Beauty
Uniformity
Utility
Coherence
Time Savings
Brand Unity at Scale
Teamwork
Collaboration
Trust

7. Design Systems

8. UI controls
Customization
Styles
Guidance
UI symbols

9. A set of connected patterns and shared
practices, coherently organized to serve
the purposes of a digital product
Alla Kholmatova

10. Design is…
Your Definition

11. a process
My Definition

12. a systematic process
My Definition

13. Design System
Following a repeatable process with predefined
steps allowing you to
iterate experiment fail
faster in order to craft
a viable and validated digital solution to a problem

14. A set of connected patterns and shared
practices, coherently organized to serve
the purposes of a digital product
Alla Kholmatova

15. UI controls
Prototyping and usability studies
Customization
Styles
Generation of code assets
Guidance
UI symbols

16. Design system
for Sketch
Prototypes &
usability studies
Generate code
for Angular app
Customization
Styles
UI symbols
Code assetsPrototyping
Usability Tests UI controls

17. Molecules OrganismsAtoms

18. With some subatomic pieces
Colors
Elevations
Typographies

19. DEMO

20. Rather than making small tweaks, you can
affect it in much more profound ways.
Alla Kholmatova

21. DEMO

22. THANK YOU!