It's the ultimate secret weapon for internet awesomeness!
Hi! I'm Matt McT, and I'm a hybrid Designer/Developer based in the NYC area.
I love creating bespoke Web Design Systems that integrate the best practices of UX Design, Graphic Design, and Front-End Development into a seamless weapon of mass web construction.
Because it's like a cheat code for responsive web projects of any scope and scale!
A Web Design System evolves both team skills and team knowledge for any project or company. This evolution is due to the daily use of web technologies, user experience best practices, and visual design fundamentals all packed into a cross-departmental web production tool set.
It Depends! Which is why a good Web Design System makes color management and iterations trivial!
A fully on-brand color wheel palette provides nearly endless out-of-the-box options for websites, web apps, digital illustrations, print illustrations, company templates, presentations, decks, videos, animations and more. It's the wheel that rules them all!
Element/Component flexibility, scalablity, cohesion and performance all combine to make a project successful!
Tomorrow is all about your ability to scale today, so a Web Design System is inherently designed for the future. Keeping your WDS full of scalable and flexible elements and components is the wave of the future, dude. Woah.
A star can easily be an icon, which is ironic considering how much rocking a rock star does to become a rock icon!
From street signs to mobile apps, icons help us to scan content like a boss. A Web Design System should give project stakeholders a visual context to debate icon interpretations in context with real content, to ensure the use of those icons communicate as intended!
A Self-Reflexive Web Design System makes good UX an ongoing conversation about itself and all derivites! How vain!
A self-reflexive Web Design System lets every stakeholder "see" and "touch" any element(s) while also providing an advanced interface to tweak that same system into the perfect cross-departmental tool set.
Typography is the emotional "rock" in the context of digital communications!
A Web Design System allows a firm to see exactly how typography changes will feel in thousands of contextual scenarios within seconds. This power is priceless from a high-level branding POV.
Automate the tedious and boring stuff, so there's more time for new design and component stuff!
A truly progressive Web Design System leverages the powerful possibilities and workflows of Open Source technologies like SASS, Node.js/NPM, task runners, and a little JSON to tie them all together!