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It can be easy to assume that everyone needs a design system, that you can pick one off the shelf or put one together pretty quickly, and your problems are over. As with many things on the web, your mileage may vary. What I want to share with you are some observations from the last few years, not just from myself but from people that have been part of our design systems journey at Auto Trader.
We started in a very different place to where we find ourselves today: loads of inconsistencies, duplication, communication that needed to be improved, and ultimately the quality and speed of output weren’t what they should be. Our practices today have dramatically improved on so many fronts, one aspect being our design system.
The Problem Space