The onion for Design Systems: atomic design and pace layering

Leslie Mu
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readAug 16, 2020

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Comparing the layers of an onion with the architectural framework of Pace Layering
Left image: K8 on Unsplash. Right image: How Buildings Learn (1994)

EEarly this year, NiceJob started moving designs and prototypes from Webflow to Figma, as the product grows and the old process will dragging both Design and Eng workflows. Assembling our research and experiments of such transition, I’m putting together a framework(ish) thing, The Onion, with its usage to assist the formation and maintenance of Design Systems, which constitutes the…

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