A curated list of design systems, pattern libraries, and more

For all of us out there building these:

1) Please make an effort to make them public. The community still needs strong examples of component libraries done right.

2) Don't stop at the button/input level. Modular/composable design system thinking should be extended way farther up the product ladder. In practice, this means things like sidebars, payment forms, common marketing widgets, etc.

3) For the love of god, put it all on one page! It's very tedious trying to click on every one of 400 sidebar links. Stuff falls through the cracks. It's much more productive to browse these libraries when you can begin at the beginning and scroll to the end.

4) The natural next steps beyond these libraries is storybook-style in-browser design. Releasing a sketch file with these is great, but the ideal future of these involves not having to use sketch at all unless you're planning changes to the underlying component (and not an instance of it)

Please don't hesitate to PM (email in profile or @patrickmakes) if you ever want to chat about this stuff. Making these systems bigger, better, and more common is a huge focus for me right now.