Great design system teams balance growing the team with an eye toward how Design, Engineering, and Product are doing at the organization so the design system team can be in lockstep with them … not behind, but not ahead either.

While this book focuses primarily on the roles of the famed “three-legged stool”—design, engineering, and product—design system work includes many other disciplines like content, QA, research, illustration, business analytics, behavioral science … any discipline typically found on a digital product team. Unsurprisingly, these are also the roles