Unifying design and development through design systems
summary
Claims and numbers: a design system reaches 94% adoption after years of work, one app hits above 80% adoption, and a global org supports 150+ apps by treating Figma as the single source of truth and publishing a technical component spec. Tools and tactics: dashboards like UTRA dashboard and DataDog tracking, a token pipeline and Code Connect, theming and extension libraries, orchestration that merges hundreds of SOT files. Outcome: measurable adoption, versioning and governance workflows, and product components that ship and get used.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:08Defining design system value
- 7:00Driving system adoption
- 12:43Component structure maturity
- 15:17Source of truth and structure
- 20:37Balancing structure and freedom
- 24:51Design system ownership models
- 27:12Design to code process
- 28:32Q&A with the audience
- 50:54AI impact on design systems
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