Creating and Using DSM Design Systems

The new DSM plugin for Sketch supports the proxy configuration that’s defined in the Network Proxy settings of the machine running the plugin. At bigger organizations, the company IT team typically manages proxy configuration. This article provides ...

With DSM, you can hide or show specific sections of your design system. When a section is hidden, only design system admins and editors can access it. Additionally, you must be a system admin or editor to change a section's visibility. To hide or ...

In some instances—like when building themes, for example—you may want to upload duplicate Sketch libraries to DSM. Currently, DSM identifies each Sketch library by its document ID. If multiple Sketch libraries with the same ID are uploaded to a DSM...

The Icons category of your DSM documentation site can contain any symbols that you reference on a regular basis, such as system icons, logos, and illustrations. Viewers of your DSM site will be able to download these items as SVGs. Prepare icon...

At any time, you can archive a DSM design system. When a system is archived, it moves to the bottom of the design systems list and changes to a read-only format. You can always restore an archived design system. If you need to permanently remove a ...

For any component page in Design System Manager (DSM), you can add links to supporting documentation or sites.  Tip: For certain sites, it's also possible to embed full web pages in DSM . Adding links Note: If you're using legacy DSM, yo...

Embedding web pages is currently limited to the DSM Enterprise plan. If using DSM Enterprise, you can embed content from the web directly into your design system. This allows you to make all your resources accessible from one place. Before you...

This feature is only available on the DSM Enterprise plan.  If you're a DSM design system admin, you can password protect a design system. This allows you to securely share your system with those outside your organization. To password protect ...

If you're an admin or editor in your Design System Manager (DSM) organization, you can duplicate a design system. To duplicate a design system: Sign in to DSM web view . In the main design systems list, hover over a system and click the ••• (...

You can download any icon in your DSM design system as an SVG. To learn more about adding icons to your design system, check out this article on developing DSM documentation . Downloading a single icon Sign in to the DSM web view and open your...

When viewing text styles in your DSM website, you or your viewers may notice that the rendered samples don’t display the correct font. This can occur if the viewer doesn't have the needed fonts installed locally on their computer. However, it is pos...

DSM supports the last two non-beta versions of Sketch. For the best experience, we recommend downloading the newest non-beta version of Sketch.

Design System Manager (DSM) is currently only compatible with Sketch.  Warning :  Sketch 85 is the last version of Sketch supported by the legacy DSM plugin.

If your DSM design systems are synced locally to Sketch, then it's possible to access them offline. That said, you can't edit design systems, and the DSM documentation site ( web view ) isn't available offline. Note :  Because the files are hos...