The 2022 Design System Survey by Sparkbox

Articles & Ideas

Consistency vs Flexibility: The Myth of Creative Restraint in Design Systems

Though they have numerous benefits, design systems are still sometimes seen as design constraints. Understand how creating a culture of trust can bridge this gap between consistency and flexibility in your design system.

Ben Callahan

Design Systems Survey 2022

Every year, we are surprised by what we learn from the perspectives of people who work with design systems day in and day out. This year, we took particular interest in learning from both the people building and maintaining a design system and those who use or contribute to it in addition to their other responsibilities.

Sparkbox

The Folly of Design System “Foundations”

The idea of “foundations” is one of the biggest threats to creating a design system people use.

SuperFriendly

A Cheatsheet of the Most Common Interaction Patterns — CREATE

Building on my post about Conversational Design for Digital interfaces, I tried to standardize the most common interaction (and conversation) patterns prevalent in apps today.

Oscar Gonzalez

Documenting design decisions is important for product designers

Documenting your design decisions will help you communicate them. Here is what the developer said to me: Why does the table have a column “uploaded by”? That wasn’t in our last meeting. Let me look at the design decision document I said to him.

Edward Chechique

Performance Management as a New Manager: An Overview (Part I)

This is part 1 of 6 in a series that gives guidance on how to manage employee performance for new product design managers — or those facing performance management situations for the first time.

Jasmine Friedl

Collecting and using desing inspiration —best practices and resources

Collecting and using design inspiration seems to be an obvious activity, however, over the years I have learned and discovered some good practices, so I decided to write a guide on this topic.

Krisztina Szerovay

10 Steps to Run Better Meetings

How can we make each meeting a home run? How do we avoid amorphous chats about generalities with expectations of swift progress? You may already be an expert meeting facilitator, but are your colleagues equally expert?

Katrine Tjoelsen