If you’re trying to sell others in your organization on your design system vision, challenge yourself to sell the same vision without using “design system“ and all the other jargon that makes it feel like a new priority instead of an accelerator to others.
Principal at Big Medium, design system consultant, web designer/developer, speaker, writer, musician, and artist
💡 Make design systems a priority by attaching the effort to other priorities. In order for a design system to be successful, it must be a priority. If it's not, it will die. But design systems are a means to an end; the trick is to make a design system a priority by making it a critical component of accomplishing other priorities. - The checkout redesign/rebuild is a priority => the design system provides many of the checkout UI components - Rolling out the rebrand is a priority => the design system's token architecture is the vehicle of rolling out the rebrand - Replatforming to the new CMS is a priority => the design system's components power the UI layer of the new CMS It takes careful work to strike a balance between advancing product work while simultaneously establishing critical design system infrastructure. That's what our team at Big Medium has been helping clients do for the last decade. It's an artform! #designsystems #design #uxdesign #frontend
