How do we reduce the gaps and make our design system more effective? By By understanding what it is and how it works. We’ll We’ll start by looking at how a pattern language evolves in a new product, by taking a simple fictional ten-minute recipe website as an example.
Example: A Ten-Minute Recipe Site Imagine we are creating a website for sharing recipes with people who love healthy food but don’t want to spend a lot of time cooking. If we were to approach it with a system in mind and define design patterns early on, where would we start? Before we begin, let’s make some assumptions. We We understand the domain of cooking, and enough research has already been done to inform our design decisions. So what we’re trying to do is not figure out what the experience should be, but see how we can establish design system thinking for this new website. PURPOSE AND VALUES
One of the first things we’d we’d do is try to understand who our users are, their goals, needs and motivations. To To keep it simple, let’s let’s say that we know they are busy professionals and their goal is to get a tasty, tasty, healthy meal without hassle and hours spent cooking coo king.. There are many ways we can help them achieve this goal: connect them with chefs, deliver food to their doorstep, build a conv conversational ersational app. But we
