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Most design systems die the same way: the design says one thing, the code says another,…

Most design systems die the same way: the design says one thing, the code says another, and a few months in nobody…

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Most design systems die the same way: the design says one thing, the code says another, and a few months in nobody knows which one is right. On a project I’m building for a fintech company, the design system lives inside the site itself, as a private route rendered from the exact components that ship to production. Their design team is very skilled at keeping their design system in Figma clean and up to date, and now the codebase keeps up with it. They’ve been loving it so far. There’s no drift between design and code, because each component only exists once, and they can see what went into

Posted by Edo (3.4k followers) 4 days ago · 163 likes · 6.4k views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Design Radar as Design-to-code.

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