Design Systems with Creative Cloud Libraries

When designing digital products at scale, it becomes increasingly challenging and critical to remain consistent. Under the increased pressures of content velocity, organizations are searching for ways to move faster when designing and building customer experiences. 

A design system provides consistent, robust, and reusable design patterns that unite multi-disciplinary product teams (designers, developers, and stakeholders) around a common visual language. It reduces design debt, accelerates the design process, and bridges teams bringing products to life. 

With XD, creating and maintaining a design system is flexible, frictionless, and intuitive. You can use design systems to:

• Create cloud documents that contain reusable colors, character styles, and components that define your design systems, and
  
• Publish Creative Cloud Libraries from those cloud documents to share your reusable design system elements with your team, allowing them to design consistently across their design projects.
• Manage updates from a central system so that everyone uses the latest assets,
  
• Use your design system assets across your end-to-end creative workflows from print, brand, and marketing designs to presentations and collaterals through libraries integration with Adobe’s creative cloud applications and Microsoft productivity suites such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and third-party extensions such as the Visual Studio plugin.
  

With XD 57 and later versions, you have the ability to experience consistent color renditions. If you’re working on a document that has an unmanaged color profile and want to reuse assets, XD prompts you to switch the color profile of the document to sRGB. For more information, see Color Management. Design systems with libraries can be incredibly handy to ensure all your team members are always using the latest design elements to build cohesive, consistent experience across all your projects.

To learn more about design systems, do check this video. 

Go through these step-by-step tutorials that help you to create and manage components, create and manage document assets, publish and share your design system through Creative Cloud LIbraries, and share design specs with developers for integration.

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