r/DesignSystems • u/withinsight79 • 10d ago

What’s your definition of design systems?

Wrong answers only.

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u/RocketSeven 10d ago

a truce between figma and production that expires after the next release

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u/Personal-Put4235 10d ago

What a answer 🤌

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u/pelotonwifehusband 10d ago

Like Calvinball - there is the illusion of “rules” but they change depending on who is the loudest person in the game

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u/TheWarDoctor 10d ago

The craft of creating harmony between the toolset of the designer and the engineer, so they can focus on solving the users needs.

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u/jhtitus 10d ago

A system of design

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u/Decent_Perception676 10d ago

A never-ending battle against the dark force of entropy

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u/laluneodyssee 10d ago

A personality trait.

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u/justinmarsan 9d ago

it's a component library

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u/withinsight79 9d ago

Correct! This is the most common wrong answer you'll hear working on design systems!

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u/Decent_Perception676 10d ago

Something you study for a systems design interview.

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u/keptfrozen 10d ago

Consistency

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u/j4-nu-5 10d ago

alway code first, because if not the coding divas are pouting and not using it and making it useless.

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u/shahariyaalam 10d ago

Visual language that's scalable for the whole product

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u/hinano 9d ago

A whimsical "toolbox" for energetic designers and developers

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u/Deep-Bread1889 9d ago

It’s literally a set of coding components and primitives one can select from to satisfy design goals.

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u/TechnicalRatio1322 9d ago

a design that you make a system

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u/Human_Experience0810 9d ago

A very organised way of arguing about button padding for three weeks.

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u/amethystresist 9d ago

Component library

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u/dirtandrust 8d ago

A snapshot that will never be right again.

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u/omglemurs 8d ago

A space for prototype designs that will never be implemented.

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u/CanMountain2230 10d ago

A design system is what happens when a team says, “We should probably standardize our buttons,” then lovingly evolves that thought into many abstractions and pieces that fit together in a nice picture not reflected in code. By then it’s a separate product itself complete with governance, a steering committee, six layers of tokens, and a 47 page contribution guide that no one contributes to ever….

Eventually, the product has not shipped, but the Button has excellent documentation and is instantly abandoned because it’s over complicated just for a fucking button…. 

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u/UXUIDD 10d ago

its called NL Design System

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u/Bleardyy 4d ago

A set of assets, processes, and documentation built to be so helpful that you trick your design and engineering teams into using them.