Lean
Design System

A lean approach to design systems, tailored to startups & small teams.

In order to achieve consistent design quality and long-term scalability, you want to enable .developers| and 🎨 designers to communicate seamlessly. Find out how a set of modular tactics will help you cultivate a modern frontend development environment.

12 Modular Tactics

Start anywhere and explore at your own pace. Here are 3 example tactics to get you going:

Principles

Minimum Viable Design System

We start with the building blocks we need today and validate them in the the context of ongoing projects at the first opportunity.

Principles

Design Codification

Design Codification is the belief that all aspects shaping digital products should be defined as code, versioned, and collectively owned.

Infrastructure

Steady Flow of Truth

We set up central repositories for our design system artifacts and establish a steady flow of components and optimizations between them.

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