Democracy and fiber cable - exploring design system maturity through analogy
In my early days at Knapsack (aka a few weeks ago) I would ask Robin "What's a Design System?" as kind of a joke.
Over time, it's become clear that there's no clear answer to this question. Robin's writing often focuses on the challenges and approaches a design system takes to problem solving - not splitting hairs about what a DS actually is.
In this Dan Mall video, the challenge of definition is illustrated: a dozen definitions and six types are offered to attempt to describe design systems. This includes definitions like:
"Any set of decisions governed across an organization" Hayley Hughes, Trust Between Teams
and
The official story of how your organization designs and builds digital interfaces. Brad Frost, Design systems are for user interfaces