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Figma's design systems publication with long-form guides on tokens, iconography, spacing, content strategy and design operations.
Why it’s a gem
Deep, non-promotional guides on foundations that Figma's product docs never cover.
Dan Mall's collection of design system practice: process essays, pilot-project methodology and adoption tactics for real organisations.
Nathan Curtis's taxonomy of token naming across category, property, concept, variant, state, scale, mode, object and namespace.
Community hub linking design system Slack groups, newsletters, events and a curated resource index maintained by practitioners.
Sparkbox's multi-year survey of design system teams reporting on adoption, staffing, governance and measured outcomes.
Open-source checklist covering planning, foundations, components, documentation and adoption stages of building a design system.