Nick Lawrence
1 min readDec 7, 2022

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This 100%. Moving forward, what we need more than anything are design tools that do four things really well:

  1. Allow code-based, atomic design specification as a standard rather than a feature set.
  2. Enforce visual accessibility standards to at least AA level, and non-visual accessibility standards such as semantic markup on components, etc.
  3. Allow product teams to develop lexicon within the design tool while keeping track of data points and points of data interpolation.
  4. Output cross-platform, responsive, stateful components that either adhere to platform standards as-possible, or deviate from platform standards where necessary.

Bottom line, the tools that are going to shape the future moving forward will be backed by, work with, and output code-based design, with tokens, variables, and contextual data that the product team can take into the development phase in a seamless fashion.

Ideally, we will see some form of Des/Dev IDE that is entirely collaborative which enforces good design and development standards and by doing so lowers the barrier to entry for designers, developers, and organizations.

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Nick Lawrence
Nick Lawrence

Written by Nick Lawrence

UI/UX designer with over thirteen years of experience in the design industry. nicklawrencedesign.com | designwalkthroughs.com

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