UIETips: Style Guide Best Practices

In today’s UIEtips, we’re happy to publish an article on Style Guides from Brad Frost.

If you want to hear more from Brad on this topic, join us on June 4, when he presents our next virtual seminar, The Why & How of Successful Style Guides. Brad’s presentation will challenge you to think differently and to employ a more deliberate design system.

Here’s an excerpt from the article:

Pattern-based design and development requires you to blur your eyes a little bit. When creating a design system built for reuse, it’s essential to take a step back from the current context and name things in an agnostic way. “Carousel”, not “Homepage Carousel”. “Filters” not “Product Grid Filters”. “Radio Button Group” not “Gender Select”. And so on.

Read the article Style Guide Best Practices.

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