Design Systems at Scale
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Adobe runs a design system that manages scale across 250+ designers, thousands of developers and 124 branded products on six platforms by turning UI into data, automated assets and clear status rules. Tokens live in Spectrum DNA and compile to multiple platforms, a newly open‑sourced Spectrum CSS handles styles, robots like Ellyn generate 1,080 buttons and run inclusive tests, and governance uses spectrum scorecards, precursor/deprecation states and bundled versioning to measure and maintain consistency.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The challenge of scale
- 1:47Complexity at Adobe
- 5:02Technical strategies
- 9:20Inclusion and transparency
- 13:09Managing versioning
- 14:37Evangelizing the system
- 16:47Measurement and metrics
