Effective strategies for demonstrating the value of design systems, even without relying on metrics. Learn how to help your clients or management understand the benefits of design systems.
Adoption, Efficiency, and Value: insights from KickstartDS’s Jonas Ulrich and Daniel Ley
In this episode, Chris talks with Daniel Ley and Jonas Ulrich from KickstartDS, a framework designed to simplify design system creation and drive meaningful adoption.
In a world where design and development increasingly need to work hand in hand, design tokens are an essential tool to encourage this collaboration. They allow you to create an effective design system that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but can also be smoothly integrated into the development process.
After round a year and a half in which we have not dealt with the topic in depth, we have once again invited Jonas Ulrich and Daniel Ley from kickstartDS to the show to talk to them about the current state of affairs in design systems.
The following topics were discussed: the unexpected outcomes of transitioning to a composable architecture, advice for agency or SaaS company executives, desired changes in the industry, identified bottlenecks in composable architectures, and the longing for a feature from old technology to be brought back.
Daniel Ley, Lukas Klassen, and Laura Marwede discuss the benefits of design systems, the differences between modern design systems and traditional style guides or component libraries, and the relationship between design systems and UX.
UX can be defined as enhancing customer satisfaction through a user-centered design. It is not just about how a product looks or feels but how it works. It is crucial that UX designers can understand the needs and goals of their users to create an engaging experience for them.
Next-level seamless editorial experiences with Studio v3: Building highly integrative, specialized tools for editors, by leveraging great base components and an embedded Studio v3 experience.
5 new Startups: SongPush, tl;dv, Aivitex, dpostar, kickstartDS 🇩🇪
At the low-code startup kickstartDS from Bonn, founded by Jonas Ulrich and Daniel Ley, everything revolves around the frontend. The open source "starter kit for design systems" is aimed at "medium-sized and larger companies that already do development and design in-house.
An episode dedicated to Design Tokens communication between design files and components libraries, from a development perspective. By using kickstartDS, we follow Jonas in the path of building a white-labelled design systems for flexibility.
kickstartDS - eine Code-Library als Schnellstart für ein Design System 🇩🇪
In June we present again two completely free webinars on our UX / UI Community Discord server. Once "kickstartDS - a code library as a quick start for a design system" and "A/B testing with Quant-UX".
Digital Design Systems: "Code is the source of truth" 🇩🇪
How designers and developers work together to realize modularity and reusability in web frontends. Behind a simple requirement there are many complex issues: e.g. which customer channels have to be served, which backend systems have to be integrated?
UX change management has the potential to transform companies with all their employees, their products and the world of end users. In this web session, panelists will share their experiences, best practices, and do's and dont's.
User interviews are an important tool for product development. In this episode, Dominique talks to Daniel Ley, an experienced UX Strategy Manager, about how we can successfully conduct these user interviews.
UX beyond Design - Why you need to approach UX holistically 🇩🇪
Daniel explains how and why UX should be included in a development process. He gives insights from his experience and answers the question "why UX should be a team sport".
