Boom: A Design System

You know what a design system is, maybe you’ve seen a few talks or tweeted about it, and you’ve casually mentioned to your manager that you are interested in creating a design system. What now? This is not a session to tell you **what** a design system is or **why** you should have a design system (hint: you should). In this session, we’ll discuss how we built our design system at the University of Michigan Library with modern frameworks and tooling, how we maintain the system, and our plans for the future of our design system.

Attendees will learn how they can use React, Storybook, Lerna, npm, and Gatsby to make their own design system and documentation, and how to integrate the design system with Sketch. Whether you are a solo developer or part of a team, a design system will help inform and grow your work every single day. A design system helps build consistent and cohesive interfaces, speeds up productivity and employee onboarding, avoids repeating work, establishes a shared vocabulary and detailed documentation, allows for easier testing, and ensures accessibility is built into your components and patterns.

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