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Tame visual inconsistencies and streamline team collaboration by building a design system that aligns your product, design, and engineering teams.

https://www.ssw.com.au/rules/design-system/

[PothieuG]

On a previous client project, we could have saved so much time by having a robust design system in place from the beginning, avoiding massive refactoring across components that should have been shared.

[Aibono1225]

Can't think of a specific example, but I can imagine it would save a lot of time around small UI detials like spacing, buttons, etc

[jeoffreyfischer]

We don't have a design system in my current project and it lead to several inconsistencies across pages e.g. different table styles, buttons etc.
I can now workaround it with AI by asking my agents to review existing components first an use their style before creating a new one.
But a Design System would definitely make the process easier!

[brookjeynes-ssw]

Great video with a great explanation. Looks like an awesome tool to manage and ensuring devs don't fall out-of-sync with the designs (consistency matters)

[TobyChurches]

I work with one on my current project, and its great! Makes things very consistent on the UI. It also makes changes super easy! We have started migrating the underlying component library and this extra layer of abstraction really speeds up the process.
The only downside is that changes to the components has a larger blast radius - Leading to extra test effort

[StefStar]

Great video, great content and great explanation. Super important for consistency when it comes to Marketing and this makes it easy!

[ricksu978]

Yes. In my experience, when something is used repeatedly, investing time upfront in a consistent and reusable design system makes a big difference. It reduces duplicated work, keeps the UI consistent, and makes future changes much faster and safer.

[joshbermanssw]

I firmly believe strong design systems improve development efficiency

[RobJT-wq]

I can see the value as it's awesome but I don't think I'll have a use case for it as a SysAdmin

[suiyangqiu]

A design system feels like something that you don't really see the value in until its built out and robust, and once its there, suddenly it'd make you wonder how you lived without it for so long

[username-must-be-unique]

Great Video!

Storybook & Chromatic are just GOAT
just took 3 years of planting seeds, finally :-D

[Ben0189]

Well done on making this happen. Design system is really helpful, and once it matures, we can think about rolling it out across our internal products.

[jimmy1992abc]

Such an interesting tool, I've already loved it from the demo video.

I am currently running on Claude Design, which has a similar Design system, but it does not show the raw code and is not able to switch between light mode and dark mode smoothly.

It would be exciting if one day the SSW Design System could be easily deployed to any project.

[bahjatalaadelssw]

Creating frameworks that can work across several projects is a great way to cut down on debugging.

[uly1]

making sure all the AI users in the company give their AIs access to this design system seems important

[jaydenalchin]

A robust and well documented design system provides such overwhelming value to any project of scale. The best design systems answer questions before they're asked and can save so much time avoiding continuous rework and re-interrogation of standard practices or patterns.

[miichaelsmedley]

When Google launched many of their products with a clean, minimal design, it really showed the value of a strong design system. Everything felt fresh, consistent, and easy to use.