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Design Systems
How to handle design system requests you can't prioritize
Silence on a deprioritized request costs more than a clear answer. Here's how to handle the queue without destroying trust.
Design Systems
What happens when your design system has too many components
Component proliferation is a governance failure, not a success. Here's how to recognize it, what it costs, and what to do about it.
Design Systems
How to kill a component (the right way)
Building a component is celebrated. Deprecating one is avoided. That asymmetry is how design systems bloat.
Design Systems
How to run a design system contribution model that doesn't collapse
Open contribution sounds democratic and scales poorly. Here's what actually works.