Tagged “naming”

Something we often talk about in our Design System team is that components should not be like Swiss Army Knives. It’s better for them to be laser-focused because by limiting their scope to a single task they are more reusable and support a more extensible system through composition.

The component gallery is an up-to-date list of interface component examples. It’s really helpful for looking up existing naming conventions. It also contains a list of Design Systems.

There’s so much to admire in Nord Health’s Design System and specifically its reference website.

Here’s a handy resource providing BEM-based naming suggestions for some of the most common web components.

The web and print are different media, however I still find some of print’s time-honoured terminology useful for naming things.

For example I use standfirst to identify intro paragraphs on Greenhill Journal Entries. This Guardian resource is a useful reference.