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What is a design token? You can find out by diving into our latest blog “Navigating Design Tokens: Strategies for Team Success,” brought to you by Senior Design Technologist, Christy Presler. This insightful guide offers key strategies to harness the power of design tokens effectively. Here's a sneak peek: ✔️Understanding Design Tokens: Unify your product's style for scalability and consistency. ✔️Why Design Tokens Matter: Streamline workflows, freeing up time for innovation. ✔️Implementing Design Tokens: Tailored approach to assess feasibility and foster collaboration. ✔️Locating Your Design Tokens: Find the right home for accessibility and maintenance. ✔️Tailoring Solutions: Customized strategies for your specific needs. Unlock the full potential of design tokens and supercharge your team's productivity! Check it out: https://lnkd.in/eX8j5zrs #DesignTokens #DesignSystem #ProductivityBoost #ProductDesign

In today's fast-paced development environment, maintaining design consistency can be a challenge. Christy Presler sheds light on the role of design tokens in bridging the gap between design and development, exploring practical strategies for using design tokens to create a shared language among team members, streamline workflows, and ensure a cohesive user experience. #DesignTokens #CrossFunctionalTeams #WorkflowImprovement"

Today is a good day... Firstly, the sun is shining in the UK ☀️ And I'm excited to dive into a rebrand with our client today! Over the past few days, I've been knee-deep in colour tokens and auditing reusable components ready for the design system roll-out. 'Design accelerator' is in full action. Applying new styles to the foundation components has created huge momentum. Our mantra? Keep it simple, scalable, and user-friendly. There is no time for complexity! ✌️ I've listened to the team, and we're on a mission to set them up to tackle a roadmap of optimisation in the future— no more reinventing the wheel on silly design tasks, freeing up time for innovation and growth. 📊 Developers are pumped to speed up delivery with streamlined components and have a single source of truth for all the teams to feed from. I am excited to see where this goes in the next 30 days. 🚀 #redesign #rebrand #uxdesign #uidesign #productdesign #digitaltransformation #designsystems #designforscale

Read my thoughts in detail about InVision shutting down in my latest article on Medium #blogs #articles #mediumarticle #invision #closing #productdesign #uxuidesign #designtools https://lnkd.in/dBzHCHuE

Why are design principles important for every studio? Design Principles are a set of guidelines that empower a team to make wise decisions and appropriate trade-offs when designing, building and innovating. Applying design principles fosters a cohesive problem-solving approach, promoting efficiency, consistency and business and user-centricity. No one set of design principles works for all teams. When defining principles, it is important to think about the types of challenges being worked on and the team’s unique value proposition to solve them. This way, relevant guidelines can be defined that create a consistent roadmap across all projects. At Farco, we have ten that span the entire product cycle and represent our approach to projects and client relationships. Here is the second half of our principles that guide the studio. Hopefully it provides a useful reference. We’re interested to hear, what kind of principles do you find important and relevant within your own organizations or create teams? #designprinciples #designtransformation

This simple hack had help me alot with dealing with debates between teammates during design brainstorming sessions which can sometimes go on infinite loop without a clear conclusion. To save meeting time and avoid ego clashes, I use a simple hack. When there's a conflict of ideas between me and another designer, I ask them to quickly sketch or create rough boxy wireframes of their idea, and I do the same. We set a strict 5-minute timer, ensuring we don’t get lost in too much detail. Next, we list the pros and cons for each idea, also within a 5-minute time limit. After that, we compare both and mutually decide which idea to pursue, or sometimes merge the two to create an even better alternative design.

✨Design tokens make collaboration between designers and developers seamless, allowing for quick iterations and ensuring scalable, consistent design systems. 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆:  ➡️ Export Layer Styles and Text Styles as design tokens directly from Sketch. ➡️ Enhance consistency across all your design projects. 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗺𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:  ➡️ Bridge the gap between designers and developers. ➡️ Ensure your design systems scale effortlessly. #DesignTokens #DesignWorkflow #SketchApp #Collaboration #Efficiency

How badly do you want something like Figma, but for 3D product collaboration? That's exactly what RealityMAX is about. RealityMAX is a game-changing #3Ddesigncollaboration platform, 100% online. Sign up free at https://buff.ly/3skKeXG #3d #design #productdesign #architecture #engineering #3dcollaboration #designcollaboration #productvisualization #3ddesign

Why are design principles important for every studio? Design Principles are a set of guidelines that empower a team to make wise decisions and appropriate trade-offs when designing, building and innovating. Applying design principles fosters a cohesive problem-solving approach, promoting efficiency, consistency and business and user-centricity. No one set of design principles works for all teams. When defining principles, it is important to think about the types of challenges being worked on and the team’s unique value proposition to solve them. This way, relevant guidelines can be defined that create a consistent roadmap across all projects. At Farco, we have ten that span the entire product cycle and represent our approach to projects and client relationships. Here are our first five and we’ll follow-up with the second half. Hopefully it provides a useful reference. We’re interested to hear, what kind of principles do you find important and relevant within your own organizations or create teams? #designprinciples #designtransformation

Some of you know I run a UX blog over on instagram, but I'm realizing one platform alone isn't the most accessible for people, especially as some prefer linkedin for this type of information. So in this post, I'd like to invite you to 2 things 😊 One is to follow my community page if you're interested in UX resources, templates, and webinars. I'll slowly be porting over things from the blog. Two, is to invite you to attend our August community meet up where we'll be doing a deep dive on design systems, co hosted by the great Jacob Olenick! It's a free event held over Zoom. Check out the post below for more information and a link to sign up! #ux #designsystems #uxresearch