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That's not correct. A quick search using Google's Ngram viewer shows that "design system" peaked in 1986, and had quite a long history before that too, starting
by astroalex 5y ago
That's not correct. A quick search using Google's Ngram viewer shows that "design system" peaked in 1986, and had quite a long history before that too, starting in the 1960s.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=design+system&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=3&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cdesign%20system%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=design+system&...
- warpech 5y agoAre you sure about the meaning though? Afaik, it started to be used in the context of UX/UI starting from the book "Atomic Design". That is also the earliest reference in the Wikipedia article. Of course, there were systems in graphic design used earlier [1], but before 2016, the thing in the OP would be called "The US Web Design Patterns" or "...Language" or "...Toolkit" or "...Library", for the lack of a common term. [1] http://assets.runemadsen.com/classes/programming-design-systems/a-history-of-design-systems/index.html http://assets.runemadsen.com/classes/programming-design-syst...
- astroalex 5y agoI'm not sure I understand the distinction you're drawing between UX/UI and graphic design. To me it seems obvious that the concept of a "design system" has been around for a while and has been applied universally in many sub-fields of design. It doesn't seem super relevant whether or not there is a CSS/JS framework to support a design system — that seems more like an implementation detail.