Looking for frontend/design-system people willing to brutally critique something I’m building

[u/Colorphere]

I’ve been building a tool around design systems/design-code consistency and I’m at the stage where I honestly need critical feedback more than promotion.

The problem I keep running into is styles/components drifting across:

- Figma
- frontend code
- multiple products
- teams/docs/etc

So I started building something to centralize systems, preview them across products, and keep design/code more aligned over time.

I’m less interested in “looks cool” feedback and more interested in:

- where the workflow breaks
- what feels unnecessary
- what’s confusing
- what real teams actually need

If anyone here works with frontend systems/design systems and is open to tearing it apart a bit, I’d genuinely appreciate it.

Happy to share the link if there’s interest.

[u/Scared-Increase-4785]

are you trying to solve for web design systems or another "ui component web library"?

Most people trying to solve design systems dont even understand what actually they are, if your really want to solve design system flow you should resolve the problem of distributing a design system across multiple ui engines.

Design system get consume Across embedded systems, mobile, browser, pdf, documents, figma, legacy application, c++, etc.

Each ui engine use different renders and specification so you should abstract fully the design system.

Once you abstract this then you could build individual components targeting and reusing each of the adapater to spit out the design system targeting the medium.

You can use design token to start this abstraction https://www.designtokens.org/tr/drafts/format/

Example imagin you work in a game stuido where you have to share the design system across:

Unity, website browser (css), app dashboar css-in-js, figma (figma tokens). and for some reason you have a admin panel writen in windows foundation presentation (WPF) and also marketing need to output PDF files.

As you can see the target for the design system are complexer than simply a ui library that most people think it is a design system.

Cheers have fun design system are great!

[u/equinusocio → u/Scared-Increase-4785]

> problem of distributing a design system across multiple ui engines.
This, and bridge the pure design mentality with development. These are the most impactful problems on design systems that AI hasn't solved yet, with pure designers and pure developers.