Instacart’s Lead Product Designer on Creating a Design System

As someone who has been responsible for making some significant design patterns I've learned one major point:

If you're not building libraries within a framework with the design specs built in you'll be stuck endlessly repainting different technologies and different experiences in a fruitless endeavor to make them feel 'coherent.'

Start with helping engineering build faster down a common pathway and make implementing design requirements cheaper for them, then you'll a pathway to building and updating experiences across your ecosystem coherently.

The caption on the first image

"Instagram, a pun-friendly company, called its first design system “Beetstrap.”

I think it's supposed to say "Instacart" instead.

Enjoyed the article. Thanks for sharing.