Most component libraries start the same way: a designer builds a button, a card, and a form input. Six months later, there are 200 components, three teams contributing, and no one agrees on naming conventions.
Before writing a single component, agree on how decisions get made, how contributions are reviewed, and how deprecation works. Technical architecture is secondary to governance architecture.
The biggest design system challenge isn't building it ÔÇö it's getting teams to adopt and maintain it.
Brad Frost's Atomic Design methodology changed how teams think about UI components. Here is how to apply it…
Brad Frost's atomic design methodology changed how we build component systems. An honest retrospective after…
Design tokens are named values that store the visual decisions of your design system. They are the single…
Design tokens solve the most persistent problem in design systems: keeping design files and production code…
The design of a component's interface ÔÇö its props, slots, and variants ÔÇö is as important as its visual…
