Design Systems That Survive Contact With Engineering
A component library is only as good as its adoption. Here's how we build systems teams actually use.
Most design systems die not because they were poorly designed, but because they drifted from the code. The Figma library says one thing, production says another, and trust evaporates.
We treat tokens as the single source of truth. Color, spacing, type scale, and motion curves live as variables that both design and code consume. When a token changes, it changes everywhere.
Components ship with their behavior, accessibility, and states baked in, documented in Storybook alongside the design. Engineers grab a real, tested component, not a screenshot to reimplement.
The measure of success is boring by design: when a new feature can be assembled from existing parts in an afternoon, the system is working.