Design Systems Are About Connectedness

With so many use cases, the system needs to enable unity, not uniformity—rallying teams to create cohesion across experiences, while giving them flexibility and a wide range of expression.

Every Friday: Set aside an hour to look at the data for all of your key results to record what’s changed.

The first things people should see when they come to a reference site are examples of the kinds of things that could be made with that design system.

If abstraction and contribution and documentation don’t go at the end of the process, when should they happen? All throughout.

Design system guidelines often take the form of principles or user experience best practices.

CHAPTER 8 Process and Workflow for Design Systems

Pragmatically, teams are generally predisposed to stick to their current practices by default, a major hurdle in trying to get them to adopt your new design system.

Perhaps the most common conflation of terms occurs within the difference between a component library and a design system. These terms cannot and should not be used interchangeably, because they’re very different things, even though they seem comparable at first glance.