Writing
Notes on design engineering: design to repo workflows, design systems and building design teams.
- What should a design system ship with first?Tokens, a handful of primitives, usage rules written next to them and a release process. Everything else can wait for the second version.
- How do you grow a design team from one to seven?Hire in the order the product needs, write down how the team works before it grows, and give every new designer an area they own.
- How do you build a design to repo pipeline?A design to repo pipeline gives design and code one source of truth, so a change made in the design file reaches the product as a versioned release.