From the course: UX Foundations: Style Guides and Design Systems
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Controlling interface chaos
From the course: UX Foundations: Style Guides and Design Systems
Controlling interface chaos
- Think for a second about all of the different elements that you use to create interfaces to your products and websites, headers, form fields, navigation menus, buttons, date pickers, image carousels, notification cards, the list goes on. All of these pieces get combined in multiple different ways to create the different pages and task flows for your software. Right now, if you did an audit of your interfaces you might find that different product teams have used different visual designs and different terminology for many of those elements. Even something as simple as a Commit button could be labeled many different ways. Like, okay, done, submit, or Finish. Multiply that variation across every interface element and you soon end up with some pretty major inconsistencies, both within and across products. A design system describes each of the standard elements or components you use to create your interfaces, whether those…
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