A list of things I found pretty useful when researching how to build and steward a design system at the Media Lab Bayern. Please note that this project did not include a component library of code base, which is why these recommendations won‘t touch on these subjects

Books

Expressive Design Systems (2019) von Yesenia Perez-Cruz, A Book Apart [Link]

• Absolutely excellent book when it comes to the implementation, structuring and stewarding of a design system.

Articles

Creating Etsy’s Design Principles

• Helpful example of what design principles might look like and how to write them (it involves a lot of back and forth with stakeholders)

Tips For Managing Design Systems

• A couple of rather basic but important tipps for implementing and stewarding a design system.

Picking Parts, Products & People

• This is a neat little team exercise for figuring out which parts your new design system actually needs