Design systems are a maintenance decision

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1–2 minutes
Printed interface components, a sitemap and colour swatches spread across a table at Northbank as the team works through a design system

Teams ask for a design system when the product looks inconsistent. That is the symptom. The cause is usually that nobody owns the components and three people ship on Fridays.

A system without an owner is a folder of files that will disagree with production within a quarter. We now write the ownership into the proposal.


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