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✅ You can build a great design system - clean components, scalable structure, everything in place.

But the real challenge is helping people actually use it.

Because without context, everyone starts interpreting things their own way.
And that’s when the system slowly begins to drift.

That’s exactly why we started documenting Silk - our design system.
At first, it was supposed to be a short manual…

But the deeper we went, the clearer it became:
The more we share, the better people can adapt and customize it.

So the “short manual” turned into a 50-page guide 📒

This work was led by our Senior Product Designer, Karina Graj, who translated the system into something designers can actually apply in real product work.

This video is a quick scroll through the Silk Manual - so you see what it really takes to make a design system usable.

But of course, you can explore it on your own.

👉 Check out the Silk manual: https://www.netguru.com/blog/silk-design-system-documentation

We asked Head of Product Research at OLX the questions you're afraid to ask 👀

Valentina Salvi shared her thoughts during one of our episodes of Next in Commerce (previously Disruption Talks) 🔥

🎙️ Research Renaissance: Driving CX with AI-Powered Insights at OLX - listen to the full episode on:
- Spotify: https://lnkd.in/ddcEDHHi
- Youtube: https://lnkd.in/diGxXqPq

🚨 IT’S LIVE. TODAY IS THE DAY.

Meet Piotr Mierzyński, our Senior UI Designer, and meet Silk - a free, lightweight design system built for commerce.

🧹 Built to clean up what usually gets messy at scale:
• brand inconsistency in fast-moving products
• chaos created by multiple squads
• fragmented experiences across user flows

With Silk, teams move faster, stay aligned, and ship without breaking the experience.

💚 Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to building Silk. This wouldn’t exist without you: Bartosz Bialek, Karina Graj, Justyna Klimkowska, Przemysław Baraniak, Aleksandra Grabska, Maciej Kotula, Marina Shevchenko, Izabela Król, Mateusz Gonerko, Emilia Charatonik, Natalia Bieniecka, Michał Jarosz, Marcin Rzymek, Magda Krukowska, Magdalena Płaziak-Kowalska, Piotr Mierzyński, Tomasz Kwiatkowski, Katarzyna Potocka, Adam Ruthendorf-Przewoski, Ruzanna Margaryan, Michał Kubalczyk, Marta Jamróz, Aneta Wawrowska.

🔥 Go to Figma and check it out: https://lnkd.in/eS9nqvfh

🪄 “We can launch products before they even exist - AI gives us the photos and videos in seconds.” - Edoardo Imparato, CEO at Small Giants.

If that line made your eyebrow go up, wait until you hear the rest.

In the newest episode of Disruption Brewed, Federico Saltalamacchia, our Senior Content Marketing Specialist, sits down with Edoardo to talk about how AI is helping startups move faster than the food industry can say “go-to-market.”

Just sharp insights, real founder stories… and Buddy the dog casually stealing the show in the background 🐶

Curious? Grab a coffee and watch the episode 👇