create-a-company-design-system

[WillemUXMendix]

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Page link: create-a-company-design-system

Document link: create-a-company-design-system.md

My Issue/Suggestion

My suggestion to this page is two-fold:

1. link it more with DEP practices and industry standards: We don't deliver a Design System, we deliver a UI Kit. It is vital for our customers to establish governance, best practices and processes in working with their Design System (or link to their existing one, as Mendix is never the only IT platform they have). So giving people the impression they already have a Design System is just not a handy thing to do. On top of that: What the documentation is about, is the technical touchpoints in our platform to enable existing Design Systems-pattern libraries (note that I'm not referring to the entire Design System) within larger companies / enterprises.
2. update content to correctly represent UI Resource Modules (not theme module) as a topic and the correct way of layering your DS. this means more documentation on how these separate modules work together, and how the original Theme module still plays an important part (unclear to why this is though). In truth: the current modular setup is still confusing and there currently doesn't seem to be a singular way of setting up these dependencies and future proof setups.

By the way, source of the input I've added is mostly from our Global UX Guild and our AppFactory teams (both internal and external)