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I'm just a lowly systems guy, but the definition of "what is a design system" is really confusing. Is it a UI library? Like if you get a team of people togethe

• cheschire 3y ago
  The article describes it pretty well. If it's still not resonating, I know it might come off disingenuous but really I would suggest pasting the description from the article into chatgpt and asking it to describe it to a "lowly systems guy" as you refer to yourself.
  • duped 3y ago
    If you can't explain it concisely and clearly, then do you understand it?
    • cheschire 3y ago
      How much more concise do you need than this? "Design system: A complete set of standards and principles to manage design at scale. It can include, but isn’t limited to, the visual design language, typography, colour palettes, components, copywriting guidelines, and other elements that create a cohesive, scalable look and feel for the product."
• eviks 3y ago
  The deliverable would be documents with "standards and principles". It's not a UI library as it also includes rules for the content itself
• vpribish 3y ago
  same. i'm fairly conversant in lots of 'design' things and this is remarkably opaque. The discussion is so generic, so removed from specifics, that it looks like it's architecture astronautics. "A design system is really a high-level concept uniting various things together around shared objectives" so it's a concept - uniting things - around objectives. so it's everything and therefore nothing. back in the real world this is just graphic design and user-interface guidelines and standards on how to present information - even to the extent of actual software components you can use to implement software. sure, cool, yay.
• esafak 3y ago
  The design language is the look, and the design system is its reusable implementation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_system