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Re: Sketch Design System 1.0

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I'm not really sure what I'm looking at here (although I'm on mobile). How is this different to something like the clarity.design template?

Clarity is a framework that comes with components ect.. Sketch is a design tool to easily create a styleguide for devs in that organization to follow.

Sorry, I should have been more explicit. I'm aware of what both products do. The guys from Clarity provide a Sketch template that contains the Clarity components & a bunch of mixins, but it's still just a (free) template for Sketch. Is this the same thing, just a template for sketch? A $39 one?

Re: Sketch Design System 1.0

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So, technically, this is not a "design system". Design systems provides code and implementation to use. I'm a developer at an agency that specializes in building design systems, and this system" is missing the key component--the code. I'll code up your design system if you send me an approved napkin sketch.

Re: Sketch Design System 1.0

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This is... really poor. I went ahead and purchased the system to see what it entailed and while it is fairly thorough, it's nothing really unique nor does it provide ready-made components for use.

You're basically paying $39 for the file setup/template and expected to fill in the components or elements yourself. Essentially you have to do all the work anyway so you're better off saving the money and building your system on your own anyway. There isn't anything in the purchased file that is all that helpful unless you're an absolute product design noob with no understanding of how systems work (in which case you should do that research instead of purchasing anyway).

Re: Sketch Design System 1.0

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post #13

So, technically, this is not a "design system". Design systems provides code and implementation to use. I'm a developer at an agency that specializes in building design systems, and this system" is missing the key component--the code. I'll code up your design system if you send me an approved napkin sketch.

Technically correct, this is a style guide template and not a complete design system. Good catch.

Re: Sketch Design System 1.0

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post #15
post #13

So, technically, this is not a "design system". Design systems provides code and implementation to use. I'm a developer at an agency that specializes in building design systems, and this system" is missing the key component--the code. I'll code up your design system if you send me an approved napkin sketch.

Technically correct, this is a style guide template and not a complete design system. Good catch.

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Re: Sketch Design System 1.0

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post #13

So, technically, this is not a "design system". Design systems provides code and implementation to use. I'm a developer at an agency that specializes in building design systems, and this system" is missing the key component--the code. I'll code up your design system if you send me an approved napkin sketch.

There is a ton of confusion around this right now, I've noticed.

Re: Sketch Design System 1.0

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post #6
post #3

A $39 template? Went to the link hoping this would be a new cloud product made by Bohemian coding.

What do you think a template for professional design _should_ cost? How much time does this save people who actually do this work? I don't know. But the price here seems like an odd thing to latch onto. It probably doesn't cost enough to be interesting.

I'd liken this less to an out of the box solution and more like selling a webpack config where you still have to plug in all your own info. You can sell anything, but this is in that weird middle ground where if you're technical enough to configure it, you're technical enough to not need to buy the boilerplate.
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