Design That Scales

Frameworks over Processes

design system practices need to effectively fit within the context of Agile.

Regardless of the specific line of questioning, talk to about 30 people. That’s a large enough subset to give you a mountain of insight about what’s important to the organization as a whole.

Contribution is difficult when the wrong people are responsible for it and when the systems in place—sprint plans, product velocity, a “move fast and break things” culture—disincentivize it.

A Design System Governance and Contribution Template

A Framework for Design System Governance Here is a framework of the primary questions to answer regarding design system governance in this order: What are the design system activities that need to be done? Why should these design system activities be done? Who should do these design system activities? When should these design system activities be d

You can use tools like CSS Stats1 to create a benchmark of quantitative data about your CSS and track it

Assure your team that their continued investment in design success means they get to do more of the things on this list.

Many design systems products feature these six common parts (Figure 3.1): A UI kit A component library Guidelines A reference website