Multi-platform design system at Booking.com
summary
Booking.com runs one design system for 200+ teams across six platforms, with 65 components and ~2,000 variants, and designers perform 50,000 inserts per week. Foundations live in a code-backed design API and assets in an asset service, both fed into Figma via custom plugins; theming covers three themes × two modes (≈600 styles) and a border-radius hack bridges Figma limits. The process enforces cross-platform properties, weekly Figma releases, catalog apps and post-release changelogs.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introductions
- 0:45A bit about booking.com
- 1:51Designing for scale
- 3:37Foundations source of truth
- 4:08Product Evolution
- 4:58Core Challenges
- 9:25Theming
- 10:07Icons
- 12:02Key Takeaways
- 12:46The multi-platform development process
- 24:15How does this apply to your team?
- 24:41Closing
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