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Is someone actually doing this? A peer wanted to. He was pretty much just doing some atoms and was enthusiastic about it. But that project fell apart because he

Is someone actually doing this? A peer wanted to. He was pretty much just doing some atoms and was enthusiastic about it. But that project fell apart because he had no real idea how to put everything together. I feel this concept is more like a well told story then something productive useful.

seattle_spring 8y ago
I just joined a project that uses it. So far I see absolutely no value, and it arbitrarily separates out components that have similar concerns.
ZenPsycho 8y ago
Google's Material design uses these principles. https://material.io/design/ https://material.io/design/ As does the BBC's GEL https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/ . Seventh Day Adventist Church: https://github.com/adventistchurch/alps https://github.com/adventistchurch/alps I'm sure many others, since it's an industry trend at the moment, I think because of Google's Material Design. It's particularly useful for very large sites where it's impractical for a designer to design every single page individually- This is a way to break a site down into a system. You might quite rightly wonder how that is different from just having templates. Atomic design includes templates, it just breaks things down to smaller pieces as well, so that a designer has an opportunity to make smaller elements like buttons, colours, widgets, forms etc consistent with each other and align to a designed grid. It reigns in some of the visual chaos and aligns extremely well to "component based" front end frameworks like react. If there's anything that this sort of thing can hopefully achieve, is greater consistency in typographic grids and rhythm. The downside of this is it can tend to make websites look incredibly bland and samey- the other side of the coin to improving consistency.

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Is someone actually doing this? A peer wanted to. He was pretty much just doing some atoms and was enthusiastic about it. But that project fell apart because he

by Yokohiii 8y ago

seattle_spring 8y ago
I just joined a project that uses it. So far I see absolutely no value, and it arbitrarily separates out components that have similar concerns.
ZenPsycho 8y ago
Google's Material design uses these principles. https://material.io/design/ https://material.io/design/ As does the BBC's GEL https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/ https://www.bbc.co.uk/gel/ . Seventh Day Adventist Church: https://github.com/adventistchurch/alps https://github.com/adventistchurch/alps I'm sure many others, since it's an industry trend at the moment, I think because of Google's Material Design. It's particularly useful for very large sites where it's impractical for a designer to design every single page individually- This is a way to break a site down into a system. You might quite rightly wonder how that is different from just having templates. Atomic design includes templates, it just breaks things down to smaller pieces as well, so that a designer has an opportunity to make smaller elements like buttons, colours, widgets, forms etc consistent with each other and align to a designed grid. It reigns in some of the visual chaos and aligns extremely well to "component based" front end frameworks like react. If there's anything that this sort of thing can hopefully achieve, is greater consistency in typographic grids and rhythm. The downside of this is it can tend to make websites look incredibly bland and samey- the other side of the coin to improving consistency.