Dive Club 🤿
5 things I learned in Season 2
Sep 28, 2023
Designers Dan Mall, Grace Walker, Adrien Griveau, Yuan Wang, and Luis Ouriach share their insights on: organizing variables and thinking strategically in design systems, pricing strategies for first-year freelancers, best practices for design systems teams, improving design portfolios and case studies, and collaboration with engineers.
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- Separating primitive and semantic variables in design systems can enhance flexibility and scalability.
- Freelancers should raise prices with each new client in the first year to determine their price ceiling and allow for growth.
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Separating Primitive and Semantic Variables
In building design systems, it is often advised to keep variables minimal and not spend too much time on future-proofing. However, designer advocate Louis Oriasch suggests that separating primitive variables, such as color foundations, from semantic variables like styles guides, can provide a more flexible foundation. By keeping them in separate files, it becomes easier to adapt to potential future changes or the introduction of new brands or products. This separation allows for a better understanding of the relationship between variables, while still ensuring scalability and avoiding extensive refactors.
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