Vernon’s Reviews > Design That Scales: Creating a Sustainable Design System Practice > Status Update

“The design system team is trying to solve problems of consistency, but product teams are mostly trying to meet their already aggressive deadlines. Anything that might slow them down—like investing time and mental space in learning a new tool—is considered a nonstarter.”

“How can you move your organization toward a more connected system?”

“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.”

“Most design systems fail because they aren’t integrated early enough into the grain of how an organization operates”