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In your experience, do you know if engineers implement the shared component libraries as such in the actual applications? This would be as opposed to engineers
by corytheboyd 6y ago
In your experience, do you know if engineers implement the shared component libraries as such in the actual applications? This would be as opposed to engineers directly implementing the end result of work in Figma (Sketch, etc.) that utilizes said components. There is a big difference there, and I'm always curious to have more data points about how this actually happens at other organizations.
- emptysea 6y agoAnecdote: at my current org the ideal we talk about is having a component library designed in Figma by the Designers and implemented by the engineers. In reality Design doesn't use components and most pages end up being composed of a bunch of one-off components and we waste a ton of time. As a side effect of this, the app design isn't consistent across pages because we aren't sharing components.
- corytheboyd 6y agoYeah that is the exact result I have observed before as well. I'm really curious to hear more examples about how this actually works out well in the end from others. I recognize that my view of this is from the bottom up in terms of only really having worked for SV startups, but I want to learn more and see if I can't make it work a bit differently this time.
- gedy 6y agoDitto, we have a quite a few designers and they mostly seem to struggle with thinking in components. They use design system like a color guide, and we keep reimplementing patterns on many pages.
- davidivadavid 6y agoSome do, sometimes relying on things like Storybook.js to do QA in the middle. There's more and more things to maintain consistency between Figma design and e.g. React components being built.