Design System 1.0

Just like growing up, the maturation of a design system is an adventurous yet challenging phase of life. While you might still want to make changes and embark on a few exploratory journeys, those around you are already demanding maturity and stability. Worse yet, they’re telling you not to touch anything that’s already finished—or at least to keep changes to a minimum. In this talk, we’ll show you how a design system team can prepare for its product’s coming-of-age test, how to communicate with product teams about breaking changes—even if you’ve committed to avoiding them—and how to help teams overcome them.