Author: Daniel Ley

More than 20 years ago I started creating user interfaces and web style guides, corporate design manuals and in the past years the first digital Design Systems.

That was the reason I co-founded kickstartDS. Knowing that we can create tremendous value for all these frontend creators and the companies they are working for.

Why Design Systems are the missing piece in MACH architectures

In the digital world, architectures make or break the business. The choice of architecture is the cornerstone upon which a business’s digital strategies are built, influencing time-to-market, operational efficiency, and overall customer excellence. Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless (MACH) architectures have been gaining ground, disrupting the market with their modular and flexible approach that enables developers to construct, scale and evolve digital commerce platforms more effectively.

Yet, amidst all the capabilities of MACH architectures, businesses often overlook a key piece of an efficient digital landscape – a Digital Design System. This crucial component of the system not only provides a unified user interface but also ensures that all parts of the MACH architecture deliver an aligned and unified customer experience.

Release Spotlight: Container Queries

Release Spotlight: Container Queries

#tldr: Container Queries are another new feature coming with the Open Source release of kickstartDS. It’s a proposed feature for CSS that allows the styling of elements to be based on the size of the container in which they are placed, rather than the size of whole browser frame. This is important for Design Systems because it allows for more flexibility and modularity in the design of components.

Release Spotlight: Semantic Token

#tldr: Design Token are all the rage these days. In almost every channel from the Design System space, you can feel a crispy white noise around the broad topic of Design Token. We also put in a lot of effort when refactoring our Token structure in kickstartDS for our latest release. It might look over-engineered on a first glimpse, but we understand ourselves as a meta framework for Design System creation and therefore want to provide you best practice defaults.

kickstartDS is Open Source now. Let’s start to democratize Design Systems today

Finally, the wait is over … today we are very proud to announce the Open Source release of kickstartDS. It’s been roughly one year since we started to go to market as we published our website, and we are thrilled to share the kickstartDS core with everyone from the Design System community.