Product & UX
Design systems for teams that aren't designers
Jun 20, 2026·1 min read
A design system is just a set of decisions you refuse to re-make. Colours, spacing, type, and a few components — decided once, reused everywhere.
Start with constraints, not components
Before you build a button library, agree on the smaller things: your palette, your type scale, your spacing rhythm. Components fall out of those constraints almost for free.