04.15.20
Andrew Couldwell wrote a book about design systems called Laying the Foundations. The book is packed full of experience and practical advice for creating, documenting, and maintaining a design system. Including advice for how design and engineering teams can work better together, an introduction to what design system are, and how to get stakeholder buy-in at your company to work on a design system. The book is available in paperback and eBook.
P.S. This is our first attempt at print design, so go easy on us ;) - Andrew Couldwell
Learn more and buy the book at: designsystemfoundations.com
The book brand features a simple yellow, black, and white color scheme. Yellow because of its connections to the construction industry and building sites, which works well with the construction analogies used in the book; relating to building design systems and 'laying the foundations'. The shapes are a mixed bag of construction analogies; be it building blocks or the shapes of construction signs. And the monospace typeface is a contemporary play on the font used in construction signage.
A simple responsive website to promote and sell the book was also created.
I'm a Brazilian product designer based in Oakland, California currently working for Google as a Staff Designer. I am also the founder of Abduzeedo, an award-winning digital publication about design and a personal project that has become the source of inspiration for millions of designers and enthusiasts.
I am an introvert, shy and that also made me feel insecure, so much so that I thought I had a problem. It turned out that was just my brain playing tricks on me. During all these years I have been reading a lot about psychology and how the brain works.
The book suggestion of this week is titled Exposing the Magic of Design
It's been quite a while since the last time I recommended a book. It's not because I haven't read any new books lately, it's just because I felt that the books I read weren't exactly worth sharing here. That's not the case of the book I want to talk about today.
These past few months I've read quite a few books of varying topics, from simple fiction to alchemy.