Divya Prabhakar
@divprabh
Divya Prabhakar
@divprabh

What is the most effective UI design documentation within a large organization?
Much of our work today is about agreement in an organization. In fact, when people ask me to define a design system, I often reply with that single word: agreement. The resources we maintain represent those agreements. A design system maintainer doesn’t really care what color a button is. They care about getting the organization to agree on which color it should be.
The complexity of our role lies in managing expectations before these agreements are made: the expectations of users who will one day interact with the products, and the expectations of peers who are building the next version of those products. When marketing says they need a carousel, the challenge isn’t the carousel itself, it’s gathering requirements across humans: our users and our peers. That process produces tokens, components, and guidelines. Abstractly, though, those are just agreements.
Curated by newsletter Kuch Hai: Art from Indian Subcontinent
“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Descension, Anish Kapoor, 2014, Château de Versailles, 8m (26ft) 2015, photo: Fabrice Seixas & kamel mennour, Paris/London

Curated by newsletter Kuch Hai: Art from Indian Subcontinent
“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Descension, Anish Kapoor, 2015, Steel, water, motor, 500 x 500 cm, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy, 2015, photo: Ela Bialkowska

Curated by newsletter Kuch Hai: Art from Indian Subcontinent
“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Descension, Anish Kapoor, 2014, Château de Versailles, 8m (26ft) 2015, photo: Fabrice Seixas & kamel mennour, Paris/London

“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Descension, Anish Kapoor, 2014, Château de Versailles, 8m (26ft) 2015, photo: Fabrice Seixas & kamel mennour, Paris/London
Curated by newsletter Kuch Hai: Art from Indian Subcontinent

“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Descension, Anish Kapoor, 2014, Château de Versailles, 8m (26ft) 2015, photo: Fabrice Seixas & kamel mennour, Paris/London
Curated by newsletter Kuch Hai: Art from Indian Subcontinent

“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Descension, Anish Kapoor, 2014, Château de Versailles, 8m (26ft) 2015, photo: Fabrice Seixas & kamel mennour, Paris/London
“Descension is an impressive sculpture that depicts water’s continuous swirling motion as it rushes down an 8m (26-ft) diameter vortex representing a powerful form that is sucked into the earth”
Curated by Kuch Hai: Art from the Indian Subcontinent newsletter