A design system is a comprehensive set of standards, documentation, and reusable components that guide the development of digital products within an organization.
It serves as a single source of truth for designers and developers, ensuring consistency and efficiency across projects.
This understanding ensures smooth communication and collaboration between different teams involved in designing and building a product, and ultimately results in a consistent user experience.
Technical challenges of large-scale web projects led to the invention of systematic approaches in the 2010s, most notably BEM[13] and Atomic Design.
The book describes an approach to design layouts of digital products in a component-based way making it future-friendly and easy to update.
The critical factors to consider when creating a design system include the scope and ability to reproduce your projects and the availability of resources and time.
When implemented well however, they can simplify work, make the end products more cohesive, and empower designers to address intricate UX challenges.