The Basics of Node-KSS

To achieve our goals of a platform agnostic, low-friction style guide, we landed on kss-node, which is itself a Node.js implementation of Knyle Style Sheets (KSS), a Ruby library that:

... provides a methodology for writing maintainable, documented CSS within a team. Specifically, KSS is a documentation specification and styleguide format.

The basic principle is that your style guide is generated via comments you create in your CSS, SCSS, Sass, LESS, etc.

Tips for designing and building a consistent design system.

Without doubt, I get asked about design systems more than anything else. So, having spent the majority of the past few years thinking about how to design, build and present design systems for products like Marvel, Bantam and Modulz, I figured I’d share some of what I’ve learned along the way.

At Atlassian, we want to create harmonious experiences for our users. We solve challenging interactions at the outset, and then apply the solutions consistently across our product suite - making sure people only have to learn them once.

Our guidelines have space for flexibility, and are continuously revised and expanded to suit changing product needs.