Skroutz V. Dimos on "Designing Design @ Digitized 2016 Conference
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The document discusses the importance of design in engineering-centric companies, emphasizing the need for a common language between design and engineering teams. It highlights the roles of style guides, pattern libraries, and design systems in achieving visual, functional, and logical consistency in product development. The document concludes with a call for hiring new talent.
Skroutz V. Dimos on "Designing Design @ Digitized 2016 Conference
- 1. Hello!
- 4. Engineering DNA 160.000 800 10 1.000.000 7.000.000 Lines of Code in Main Repo Commits per month Deploys per day Searches per day Pageviews per day
- 6. responsible for Design - team 235.000 Active app installs 160.000 Active app installs ...nevermind
- 7. “Designing Design” In an engineering - centric company
- 12. Design & Engineering Eternal struggle?
- 13. Successful product = Business + Design + Engineering Common Goal
- 15. Goal & Principles What is missing ?
- 16. Common Language Something both understand and can work with
- 17. What does a language need? Rules & Logic
- 18. The rules Style Guides Pattern Libraries
- 19. Style guides A style guide (or manual of style) is a set of standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication, organization, or field.
- 21. Style guides Achieve Visual Consistency Portable branding experience Familiarity & Recognition
- 22. Pattern Libraries Recurring solutions that solve common design problems
- 25. Pattern Libraries Reuse of Components Which are debugged And crafted over time Familiarity of behaviour & Interaction
- 26. Deliverables and goals Make the right thing, the easy thing to do!
- 27. Is this enough?
- 31. Design System Design system articulates a general design direction, philosophy, and approach to specific projects or products.
- 37. Through the understanding of the philosophy Make it easy to extend the styleguide Achieve logical consistency Benefits of a Design System
- 38. Active development from a real team with Storytelling Deliverables of a Design system Documentation Blogposts Internal Presentations Design One on Ones Design Reviews
- 39. We are not alone
- 40. At a glance Style guides are for visual consistency Pattern libraries are for functional consistency Design systems are for logical consistency
- 42. Q & A Thank you