michael_nielsen

One of the hardest parts about design systems work is that you have to treat it all like designing a blog – the work requires tiny, incremental improvements that build up over time instead of giant reinventions of the wheel that never ship.

“We need a good design system” is like saying “we need a better government” which...sure...but that’s such an impossibly vague and kinda useless thing to say. Instead, let’s improve this button, this policy on infrastructure, this one accessibility issue.

Also? I’m so bored of all these dudes that seem to think that design is a problem of taste rather than a problem of diligent, slow work over many years. The job isn’t just walking into a room and telling everyone they need more drop shadows.