Front-end Style Guides talk

20-45 minutes

Outline

  • A quick preview of the different types of style guides.
  • What a front-end style guide is, and why they're so useful for designers and developers.
  • Some cool features in exisiting front-end style guides.
  • Tools you can use to help build one.
  • How keep it maintained.
  • An introduction to living style guides.
  • Further resources.

Description

After interviewing a dozen people with Brad Frost for their podcast on Style Guides for the web, Anna has collated all their findings for this talk on the different kinds that are out there, how they’re built, what works (and what doesn’t), and what makes them such a useful tool.

She’ll give you a tour of some style guides built by companies with a range of different needs and requirements, and you’ll learn how to build your own using a range of possible technologies.

Most importantly, she’ll show you how to make sure they don’t get forgotten at the end of the project, and ways that it can be kept up to date as living documentation well after a site has gone live.

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Feedback

Style Guides talk by @anna_debenham at #webexpo was awesome. Tommorow I am going to start to make one!

@konnnyy

Really great overview and introduction to style guides by @anna_debenham. #FTF15.

@criscom

Enjoyed @anna_debenham's talk on UI/Web Style Guides @webexpo. It's a challenging but worthwhile investment for product teams

@johnnyrodgersis

Awesome talk on style guides by @anna_debenham Thank you. #dotyork

@PierceMcGeough

Where I've given this talk

  1. Fronteers

    Netherlands, Amsterdam

    Front-end Style Guides

  2. WebExpo Prague

    Czech Republic, Prague

    Front-end Style Guides

  3. From The Front

    Italy, Bologna

    Front-end Style Guides

  4. Dot York

    England, York

    Style Guides

  5. Lean UX London

    London, England

    Front-end Style Guides