How Nokia builds design systems with Raquel Pereira
Interview with Raquel Pereira, Lead UX designer (Design Systems) at Nokia
Takeaways:
🔹 Nokia is providing network solutions.
🔹 Maintaining consistency.
🔹 Collaboration between designers and developers
🔹 Documentation and communication are key challenges
🔹 Prioritizing components, organizing design files
🔹 Using design tokens vs variables
🔹 Figma Analytics
🔹 A design system is not just a local library
🔹 Understanding user needs
🔹 Complexity is easy; simplicity is the challenge.
🔹 You don't have to depend on tools.
Useful tools mentioned:
🔗 Main Website: nokia.com
🔗 Friends of Figma Portugal: https://friends.figma.com/portugal/
🔗 Supernova https://www.supernova.io/
🔗 Storybook: storybook.js.org
🔗 Tokens Studio https://tokens.studio/
🔗 Figma Analytics