Eliminate your collaboration problems by sharing components — Smashing Magazine

Is it controversial to say that deep integration of design systems, which removes the need to maintain both a code and design version of each component, is the current Holy Grail of Web design?

Traditionally, the “Holy Grail” was the full-height three-column layout, but that has now been consigned to history. Likewise, vertical centering can no longer be the point of a CSS joke. Even Container Queries, often considered an impossible task, are coming to browsers.

This historical precedence gives me optimism. People throughout the web industry have worked together, both cooperatively and competitively, to gradually, step-by-step, improve the web. To fundamentally improve the way we all work. The same is now happening with design systems. For all the advantages there are, we still have many things to solve. UXPin is focused on the goal of removing the gap between design and development tools.

Introducing UXPin’s npm integration

We have written about our friends previously at UXPin, and it was really great to see them iterate on their product to bring designers and engineers closer. Recently, UXPin has their powerful Merge function by adding npm integration, which allows designers to sync React component libraries without...