Everything Under Control: Guidelines Inside the Design System
summary
Describes adding content guidelines into Zanichelli’s Albe design system by piloting rules for a button/tab component: preferred vs discouraged labels, concise principles, tone guidance and simple orthography rules. Uses a single writer supporting many teams, experiments with Figma-adjacent plugin concepts (not productionized), and reports higher adoption and fewer repeated questions though no formal global review process exists yet.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Zanichelli project intro
- 4:13Strategic writing in design systems
- 9:10Content inclusion in Albe
- 15:40Guidelines structure and rules
- 20:18Designer learnings and feedback
- 25:47Multilingual management
- 28:40Governance and quality control
- 31:14Q&A
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