Setting up a design system can help create consistency and guardrails for authors, designers, strategists, developers, and all involved in creating and maintaining a website or application. But what happens when that design system needs to scale and expand to support numerous agencies or applications, each with a different purpose and audience? In this session, we’ll share some design challenges we’ve encountered when working with design systems that need to scale. We’ll discuss the following challenges:
- Scaling and maintaining design patterns
- Naming systems at scale
- Maintaining a “system of systems”
- Governance and adoption at scale
- Component content flexibility and guidance at scale
This session is for those already familiar with design systems but unsure how to scale them to multiple websites and applications.
About the Speaker
Jen Witkowski
Associate Design Director at Lullabot
