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Articles by Alla Kholmatova
Design Systems - SitePoint Premium
Description: As the web continues to become more complex, designing static pages has become untenable, so that many of us have started to approach design in a more systematic way. In this book, Alla Kholmatova sets out to identify what makes an effective design system that can empower teams to create great digital products. Not all design systems are equally effective. Some can generate coherent user experiences, others produce confusing patchwork designs.
Integrating Animation into a Design System
Keeping animation choreography cohesive from the outset of a project can be challenging, especially for small companies. Without a dedicated motion specialist on the team, it can be difficult to prioritize guidelines and patterns early in the design process. What’s more likely to happen is that animations will be added as the product develops. Article Continues Below Unsurprisingly, the ad-hoc approach can lead to inconsistencies, duplications, and rework in the long run.
Integrating Animation into a Design System
Keeping animation choreography cohesive from the outset of a project can be challenging, especially for small companies. Without a dedicated motion specialist on the team, it can be difficult to prioritize guidelines and patterns early in the design process. What’s more likely to happen is that animations will be added as the product develops. Unsurprisingly, the ad-hoc approach can lead to inconsistencies, duplications, and rework in the long run.
Maintaining and organising a pattern library - FutureLearn
In this post Alla, one of our designers, discusses organising elements in our pattern library and the challenges of maintaining modular design. For as long as we’ve had a pattern library we’ve been trying to work out the best way to organise the patterns in it. In this post I’m going to share some of the different methods we’ve tried and how they’ve worked out for our team. If you work in a small company, chances are that you don’t have a dedicated design system team.
The Language of Modular Design
As many of us move away from designing pages toward designing systems, one concept keeps cropping up: modularity. We often hear about the benefits of a modular approach; modules are scalable, replaceable, reusable, easy to test, quick to put together—“They’re just like LEGO!” Modularity might appear to be a simple concept at first, but making it work for your team demands significant effort and commitment.
Collaborative User Testing: Less Bias, Better Research
I’ve always worked in small product teams that relied on guerrilla user testing. We’d aim to recruit the optimal number of participants for these tests. We’d make sure the demographic reflected our target audience. We’d use an informal approach to encourage more natural behavior and reduce the effect of biases participants could be prone to. But you know what we almost never talked about? Ourselves. After all, we were evaluating work we had personal and emotional involvement in.
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