Style Guides

Set standards that scale.

It sounds simple, but we often hear that style guides are of the highest-ROI deliverables we provide.

As you know, a style guide is simply a document that outlines the style guidelines that future collaborators should apply to their work, including things such as typography, color palettes, spacing, imagery, and more.

These typically come after design concepts and some amount of UI design.

 

Given their simplicity, why are style guides so impactful?

Example of style guide components

The short answer: You don’t need to keep us around indefinitely to continue producing pixel-perfect designs.

Clients use our style guides to continue progress, long after an initial engagement. Our interactive specs expose properties, dimensions, and grid behaviors to your developers. Cut time and mistakes with copy-and-paste property panels and platform-optimized assets. We coordinate with your development team to ensure that they get what they need: atomic pattern libraries, thoughtfully coordinated modules, and more.

Whether you start with a style guide or opt for a full-blown design system, these deliverables make it possible for you to continue pixel-perfect implementation beyond our engagement.

““I’ve been impressed with the smooth transition from design to development. Slide UX has been able to add details that the development team needs; the designs work because they’re in a language developers understand. Thanks to their work, I’ve watched the designs come to life without issues.“”
— Molly Williams | Digital Sales Program Manager @ Centro Inc.
 

How style guide services work

  • This activity culminates with a review of the style guide with stakeholders and the development team during the first developer handoff of designs.

    Our team answers questions and makes necessary iterations.

  • Style guides often include the following deliverables:

    • The style guide itself, created and maintained in Figma

    • Change log

    • Meeting notes

    • Recordings of all meetings & sessions

 

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Why Slide UX?

  • We’re experts in UI design, user research, and UX strategy.

  • We're consistently ranked among the top 5 UX agencies worldwide based on client ratings, but we maintain a humble and down-to-earth culture.

  • We’re going to be here for you. We’ve been in business for 11+ years, and we’ve served nearly 200 product and marketing leaders in a range of industries.

  • Our flexible agreements allow you to scale resources up and down as needed over time, from part-time to a full team.

  • Our team is fully US-based, and dedicated to excellent responsiveness and communication.

  • As a woman-owned family business, we genuinely care about each client.