LSX Design System Overview #
The LSX Design System is a powerful design tool built in Figma that provides designers with everything they need to quickly visualise and prototype pages before building them in WordPress. It allows for rapid iteration and experimentation, enabling designers to create fully-realised mockups of a website’s layout and structure without the need to touch any code.
The system includes an extensive pattern library featuring pre-designed layouts for hero sections, galleries, testimonials, pricing tables, and more. These patterns can be quickly inserted into any design, saving time while ensuring a consistent, professional look across all pages. With the LSX Design System, you can streamline the design process and ensure that the visual representation in Figma aligns perfectly with the development in WordPress.
This system is especially valuable for users of the LSX Design Theme, offering pre-built components, styles, and templates that are fully aligned with the WordPress environment. By using the LSX Design System in Figma, designers can create consistent, pixel-perfect designs that can then be easily implemented in WordPress, saving both time and effort.
How to Use the LSX Design System: #
- Open the Figma File: Start by opening the LSX Design System Figma file. This file includes pre-designed components, blocks, templates, and an extensive pattern library that are specifically built to align with the LSX Design Theme in WordPress.
- Design Your Pages: Use the LSX Design System’s components and patterns to build out pages. Whether you’re designing a homepage, blog layout, or product page, you can visualise the entire layout in Figma, including headers, footers, content sections, and call-to-action areas. Experiment with different layouts, colours, and elements to refine the design before development.
- Leverage the Pattern Library: The pattern library in the LSX Design System allows you to quickly insert complex page sections like hero banners, testimonials, and pricing tables. You can customise these patterns to fit your design vision, speeding up the design process while ensuring consistency.
- Preview Responsiveness: The LSX Design System allows you to test how your design will look across multiple screen sizes. Use Figma’s responsive design tools to adjust layouts and ensure that your site will be fully functional on mobile devices, tablets, and desktops.
- Handoff to Development: Once your design is complete, hand it off to your development team. Because the LSX Design System components in Figma are aligned with the LSX Design Theme’s WordPress blocks, developers can easily replicate the design in WordPress with minimal effort, ensuring that the live site matches your design vision.
For more details on how to use the LSX Design System in Figma, visit the LSX Design System Documentation.
Prototypes for Inspiration: #
We have created a couple of prototypes for inspiration. These can give you a head start in designing your own websites with the LSX Design System:
- Basic Website Prototype: This prototype simulates a simple website design that showcases essential pages like home, about, services, and contact.
- Standard Website Prototype: This more comprehensive prototype covers a full website layout, including additional pages for blogs, portfolios, and testimonials.
How the LSX Design System Benefits LSX Design Theme Users: #
- Fast Prototyping and Visualisation: The LSX Design System is designed to help you visualise complete web pages before spending time building them out in WordPress. With pre-built Figma components for headers, footers, content sections, and galleries, designers can rapidly prototype pages, adjust layouts, and experiment with different design ideas. This lets you see exactly how a page will look and function before investing time in development.
- Extensive Pattern Library: One of the standout features of the LSX Design System is its pattern library, which includes a wide range of pre-designed layouts for common website elements like hero sections, image galleries, testimonials, and pricing tables. These patterns allow you to quickly build complex page sections in Figma, customise them as needed, and ensure consistency across your designs.
- Efficient Design Handoff: Once a design is finalised in Figma, developers can easily translate it into WordPress using the LSX Design Theme, ensuring consistency between the visual mockups and the live website. This streamlined handoff between design and development reduces the back-and-forth, making the process more efficient and collaborative.
- Customisable and Scalable: The LSX Design System’s components and patterns are fully customisable in Figma, allowing designers to tweak layouts, typography, and colour schemes to match the project’s branding. Whether you’re working on a small blog or a large eCommerce site, the design system is scalable, supporting projects of all sizes.
- Design Consistency Across Projects: With pre-built design tokens, variables, and patterns, the LSX Design System ensures consistency in all elements—colours, typography, spacing—across multiple pages and even different projects. This is particularly useful when building large websites, where maintaining a cohesive look across various pages is essential for branding and user experience.
- Visualising Responsive Designs: The LSX Design System in Figma is optimised for responsive design, meaning you can quickly preview how your site will look on various devices. This lets you make design adjustments in the prototyping stage, ensuring your website looks great on desktops, tablets, and smartphones before moving into the WordPress build.
