Articles + Resources

Design Systems

Design Systems - A Figma publication for design systems creators, designers, developers, and managers.
The UI Prep Syllabus on Design Systems - Over 90 resources for mastering design systems
Awesome Design Systems - Curated list of design systems, pattern libraries and everything in between by Alex Pate
Design Systems for Figma - A collection of Design Systems for Figma from all over the globe
Defining Product Design - Discussion with Alex Schleifer, VP of Design at Airbnb
Design Tokens beyond colors, typography, and spacing - by Cristiano Rastelli
Hawkins: Diving into the Reasoning Behind our Design System - From the Netflix Technology Blog
Evolving a Design System at Scale - How Salesforce UX uses cross-product themes to update our design system by Liz Khoo
Distributed Ownership - How to maximize acceptance & adoption of your design system by Linzi Berry
Interrelationships in design systems - by Anna Stumpf
Measuring the Impact of a Design System - by Cristiano Rastelli

Documentation

Documenting Components Series - by Nathan Curtis
Documentation, the Key to a Successful Design System - by Jerome de Lafargue
Anatomy of a reference site component detail page - by Brad Frost
Writing Framework - Liferay.Design Lexicon
6 tips for writing effective design system documentation - Practical tactics for writing helpful design guidelines by Ross Moody

Design Principles

Design guidelines: how I get design done - Align stakeholders and designers by creating design guidelines by Daniël De Wit
The 1-hour design principles workshop - by Matthew Ström
Design Principles - An open source collection of Design Principles and methods.
Design Principles FTW - The most comprehensive collection of Design Principles on the internet.