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10 great design systems and how to learn (and steal) from them
Design systems are all the rage and while most articles talk about what they are and best practices for creating them, at DesignerUp we’ve been framing them as a teaching tool with our product design students to help them better understand, explore and learn the philosophies, best practices and principles of UI design, UX and Product Design.
Aside from implementing design systems into your workflow, design systems are a tremendous untapped resource for learning how to create better user experiences and interfaces just by studying them! What better way to understand how to design an e-commerce user flow than from Shopify?!? These are what we call Design Patterns and smart designers know how use these to inform the decisions they make with their own designs. No need to reinvent the UX wheel when the best companies in the world have already paved the way, tested them with actual users and published their UI/UX and product design methodologies online!
“Sometimes I think everything I draw is just a combination of all of the millions and millions of drawings I’ve seen.”
