DSW Day 2023 - The Rebel’s Guide to Design Systems - Kaelig Deloumeau-Prigent

Top-tier design systems sure look like they’re the holy grail with their comprehensive documentation, community resources, and custom tooling… we should follow their lead, right? Don’t, it’s a trap. Let’s look at design system “best practices” that are downright harmful to your product development lifecycle when implemented by small-to-medium teams.

Bio: Kaelig is a principal software engineer at Netlify and co-chair of the Design Tokens Community Group. In the past, he’s worked on various design systems, such as Shopify Polaris and the Salesforce Lightning Design System.