I thought a design system would just slow us down, but a project in Austin last year proved me wrong.

We were building a new dashboard for a client, and the lead designer insisted we use the new component library they'd been building. I rolled my eyes, thinking it would mean more meetings and less actual coding. But after the first sprint, we had a working prototype with consistent spacing and typography that usually takes weeks to argue about. The real win was when the client asked for a dark mode feature two weeks before launch. We flipped a single theme variable and 90% of the UI just worked. What finally convinced you that a design system was worth the upfront cost?

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tessa9221h ago

Right?! Saved our team during a last-minute rebrand!