Design systems and the promise of solving inconsistency
Design systems aren't a silver bullet to align teams and magically make digital products more consistent. In Through a design system, darkly, Ethan Marcotte describes two issues:
Design systems haven’t “solved” inconsistency. Rather, they’ve shifted how and when it manifests.
Many design systems have introduced another, deeper issue: a problem of visibility.
Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 79 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.