Accessibility built into the foundation of every component, not added as an afterthought.
Prioritize usable, evolving systems that teams actually adopt over perfect-but-ignored ideal solutions.
Establish clear processes for contributions, reviews, and decision-making to ensure quality and consistency.
Maintain predictable behavior and shared rules without forcing every interface to look identical.
Define clear constraints so teams build consistent solutions without stifling flexibility.
Keep design and development artifacts in sync, ensuring what is designed matches what is built and maintained.
Treat documentation as a first-class product with ownership, roadmap, and quality standards.
Maintain stable APIs while evolving the system, with clear versioning strategies and migration paths.
Make constraints visible and documented so teams understand boundaries and can work within them effectively.
Continuously improve the system based on real usage data, user feedback, and team needs.
Build complex interfaces by composing smaller, focused components that work together predictably.
Design systems must grow with the organization, supporting new teams, products, and use cases without breaking existing implementations.
A centralized repository where all design decisions live, ensuring consistency across all platforms, tools and teams.