Vernon’s Reviews > Design That Scales: Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice > Status Update
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“Downloading files is working with duplicates; it’s your own copy of the original set of files. Downloading means you have your own version, which means the version of Bootstrap [or whatever] in your files isn’t connected to the official version of Bootstrap anymore.”
— Aug 15, 2025 02:40AM
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“the culture needs to exist for designers to feel safe to grow into their new skills.”
— Jul 15, 2026 07:26AM
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a “spot comp,” a visual sketch of just one spot on this screen, not the whole screen.
— Jun 19, 2026 02:06PM
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You must prioritise front-end development In order to make the most of a design system.
— Feb 16, 2026 05:01AM
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“Design system teams are really good at standardizing things and abstracting them. Product teams are really good at inventing new things and being able to use them in their products to meet their deadlines and to create customer value.”
— Feb 08, 2026 04:37AM
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Design system teams are really good at standardizing things and abstracting them. Product teams are really good at inventing new things and being able to use them in their products to meet their deadlines and to create customer value.
— Feb 04, 2026 08:18PM
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“Creating a design system in a vacuum and then trying to plug it into an organization’s rapidly moving product design process rarely works.”
— Jan 28, 2026 03:44AM
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The driving question you should try to answer is, “What three components could other teams use right now?”
— Jan 25, 2026 04:34AM
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“If you’re constantly using words like create, generate, or define, your team might have too much of a propensity to see themselves as the authority than they should, and you’re probably in for an uphill journey in adoption.”
— Jan 09, 2026 03:19AM
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“The driving question is, “What do we need to be able to make with our design system?”
— Sep 16, 2025 03:32PM