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Ravi Lingineni

Published Aug 19, 2022

Design Adoption at Pinterest

Metrics and tooling for design systems

You can read more about my work on the Figma Blog.

TLDR:

Design system adoption is a measure I’ve been working on at Pinterest. The more people that adopt a design system, the more impact and use it has.

I got a chance to work with Pinterest’s Design System Team to make a few changes in the way designers accomplish their work

  1. Built a plugin to help clean and lint designs. We call it handshakes

  2. Created a way to measure adoption from the cloud

  1. Introduced a design annotation kit to make it designer/developer handoff easier. Unfortunately, it’s not public