Building a Design System from Scratch
The article discusses the author's journey in building a personal design system from scratch. It highlights the importance of consistency, branding, and the learning experience gained throughout the process. The author shares insights on component patterns, tokens, and the challenges faced while creating this design system.
- ▪The author aimed to create a unique branding experience through a personal design system.
- ▪Consistency in design was a key focus, with all components adhering to the same guidelines.
- ▪The project allowed the author to learn about component building and design system thinking.
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- ▪ Fractal Design North XL build — r/buildapc
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| Original publisher | The Blog of Maxime Heckel |
| Canonical URL | https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/building-a-design-system-from-scratch/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 20:23:20 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T20:37:40.523Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-25T20:37:40.523Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | y1iN54jYZOgY · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Building a Design System from scratchMay 10, 2022May 10, 2022As someone who's always been striving for consistency, building delightful and accessible experiences, and trying to do all that faster than ever, the concept of ✨design systems✨ has always interested me. I believe in setting up clear standards for colors and fonts and establishing patterns to build reusable components as the key to building sustainable UIs that can withstand the test of time. For the past few years, I've been working a lot on this blog, the interactive experiences showcased in my blog posts, and several other tiny projects that needed consistency in branding and components.
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