Author: Jonas Ulrich

After 15 years building websites and UI's ourselves, we wanted to improve the way teams collaborate when creating web frontends. That's why we started kickstartDS.

We want to share our experience and offer a huge library of best practice patterns and well tested web components. All the while following the principles of the Atomic Design methodology.

Unlocking the frontend – a call for standardizing component APIs pt.2

#tldr Why Design Systems, and a more structured approach to frontend engineering in general, might be key to a more shared frontend ecosystem. And how this thought might hit an interesting inflection point rather sooner than later, with the advent of production-ready Web Components as a shared technical standard and foundation for interoperability.

So what are the missing pieces? And how could our latest release, and the accompanying schema tooling open sourced with it, play into this? And what would a blog post be today, without tying it into AI? Buckle in: this will be a long one!

Release Spotlight: Documentation & Starter

#tldr We’ve added extensive documentation around the creation of Design Systems with kickstartDS. From general intro and foundation articles and component example guides to our main guide “Create your Design System”… explaining every single step of the process in detail. And for everyone wanting to dive in head first, we’ve added an extensive, best-practice Starter as a Github template! Clone it and kickstart your Design System in just 5 minutes!

Idea to production in under a day: The Design System as enabler and accelerant

#tldr How building upon a strong foundation, best practices and ready-made-integrations enables delivering new features and content in record time, drastically improving your time-to-market. To showcase this, we’ll add two completely new structured content types to our website: Showcases and Appearances. We’ll also follow a workflow shaped by the use of a Design System, connect… Continue reading Idea to production in under a day: The Design System as enabler and accelerant

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Unlocking the frontend – a call for standardizing component APIs pt.1

We’re still wasting massive amounts of valuable development cycles in the frontend world by working in silos, or by to at least some extent reinventing the wheel for every project. Results suffer in the process, impacting real world results for users and content creators alike.
How did we get here, and how could a way forward look like? How we’ve already come a long way, and why still (so far) even Jamstack hasn’t been the sole answer, either…