Design Systems 2017-2018 Survey

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* 1. Do you currently use a design system?

Yes

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* 2. What challenges lead to the creation of the design system?

Lack of code standards

Lack of design consistency

Redundant design and/or development work

Disconnect between designers and developers

Inefficient design and/or development process

Other

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* 3. How many people are currently employed at your company?

1 - 25

26 - 100

101 - 500

501 - 1000

1001 - 5000

5001 or more

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* 4. How many developers currently work at your company?

1 - 5

6 - 15

16 - 30

31 - 50

51 - 100

101 - 200

201 - 500

501 or more

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* 5. How many designers currently work at your company?

1 - 5

6 - 15

16 - 30

31 - 50

51 - 100

101 or more

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* 6. Does your company have employees who work on the design system full-time?

Yes

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* 7. Does your company have employees who work on the design system part-time?

Yes

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* 8. Which programming languages, libraries, and/or frameworks are used in your design system?

React.js

Vue.js

Angular 1

Angular 2

Web components

Polymer

Ember

Native iOS

Native Android

HTML templates (e.g. mustache)

I don’t know

Other (please specify)

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* 9. What does your design system cover?

Color palette

Space definitions (grid, padding, margins, etc.)

Typographic scales

Basic style properties (border, containers, border radius, etc.)

Design tokens

Icons

Brand and graphic design assets (logos, approved photos, etc.)

UI patterns

Markup snippets

Documentation of CSS classes

Code implementation rules and guidelines

Editorial rules and guidelines

Accessibility guidelines

Design principles

Other

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* 10. How do you use CSS in your design system?

CSS in Javascript

Sass

LESS

Stylus

CSS

Post CSS

Other

We don’t use a CSS framework in our design system

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* 11. How do you manage icons in your design system?

Inline SVGs in Javascript components

SVGs in CSS data-urls

SVGs as linked background

PNGs in CSS data-urls

PNGs as linked background

Icon Fonts

We don’t have icons in our design system

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Do you use design tokens?

Yes

I don’t know

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* 13. What component documentation/front-end style guide tools do you use?

Fractal

Drizzle

Frontify

Source.js

React Doc Gen

Jekyll Living Styleguide

Styleguidist

Pattern Plate

Tool(s) built in-house

We don’t use component documentation or front-end style guide tools

Other (please specify)

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* 14. What design systems tools do you use?

UXPin

InVision Craft

Lingo

Sketch

Pattern Lab

Brand.ai

Tool(s) built in-house

We don’t use design systems tools

Other (please specify)

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* 15. Is your company planning to change the technology stack in the next 12 months?

Yes

I don't know

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* 16. Is your company planning to change your design systems tools in the next 12 months?

Yes

I don't know

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* 17. How often do you release a new version of the design system?

At least once a day

At least once a week

At least once a month

At least once a quarter

At least once a year

Less than once a year

I don't know

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* 18. Who can contribute new elements to the design system?

Designers in a design operations and/or design systems team

Any designer in the company

Developers in a design operations and/or design systems team

Any developer in the company

Other people

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* 19. How do you manage version control of the design system?

Git (Github, Bitbucket, etc.)

Mercurial

SVN

Abstract

Kactus

We don't manage version control of the design system

Other (please specify)

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* 20. Who are the sponsors of the design system?

Design or UX leadership

Engineering leadership

Product leadership

Other role

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* 21. What benefits have you seen from using a design system?

Improved NPS score/user satisfaction

More accurate development estimates

Increased design consistency

Faster design process

Faster development process

Reduced cost of maintenance

No benefits

Other

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* 22. Which of the following difficulties did you experience when building the design system? Rank them from 0 (not difficult at all) to 5 (extremely difficult).

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Getting budget and resources	Getting budget and resources 0	Getting budget and resources 1	Getting budget and resources 2	Getting budget and resources 3	Getting budget and resources 4	Getting budget and resources 5
Getting buy-in from designers	Getting buy-in from designers 0	Getting buy-in from designers 1	Getting buy-in from designers 2	Getting buy-in from designers 3	Getting buy-in from designers 4	Getting buy-in from designers 5
Getting buy-in from developers	Getting buy-in from developers 0	Getting buy-in from developers 1	Getting buy-in from developers 2	Getting buy-in from developers 3	Getting buy-in from developers 4	Getting buy-in from developers 5
Finding the right tools and methods	Finding the right tools and methods 0	Finding the right tools and methods 1	Finding the right tools and methods 2	Finding the right tools and methods 3	Finding the right tools and methods 4	Finding the right tools and methods 5
Unifying tools across all teams	Unifying tools across all teams 0	Unifying tools across all teams 1	Unifying tools across all teams 2	Unifying tools across all teams 3	Unifying tools across all teams 4	Unifying tools across all teams 5
Choosing the right technology	Choosing the right technology 0	Choosing the right technology 1	Choosing the right technology 2	Choosing the right technology 3	Choosing the right technology 4	Choosing the right technology 5
Unifying technology across all products	Unifying technology across all products 0	Unifying technology across all products 1	Unifying technology across all products 2	Unifying technology across all products 3	Unifying technology across all products 4	Unifying technology across all products 5
The size/scope of the design system	The size/scope of the design system 0	The size/scope of the design system 1	The size/scope of the design system 2	The size/scope of the design system 3	The size/scope of the design system 4	The size/scope of the design system 5