Why You Should be Building Design Systems and CSS Architectures
summary
Argues that starting with a CSS architecture and a live design system prevents later churn, showing a built Women in Tech site made from copy‑paste modular components instead of page comps, and citing style tiles (Samantha Warren) plus a documented pattern library as the deliverables. Uses Photoshop comps early, then inventories components (Mina Markham’s Clinton site example), publishes code snippets and docs so back-end devs reuse UI pieces, and points to MailChimp pattern library as a working example.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:45History Lesson
- 2:41What Exactly Is a Page
- 5:17Visual Components
- 5:27User Flow Patterns
- 6:28Style Tiles
- 7:21Libraries and Frameworks
- 8:06Advantages of Having a Framework or a Library
- 9:16Style Guides
- 10:12Take the Inventory of the Design
- 11:04Create a Library or Framework
- 11:39Goals
- 12:38Popular Methodologies
- 13:31Shared Vocabulary
- 14:00Resources
