We’re Not Doing Design Systems Properly and That’s Okay
summary
A design system built inside Societe Generale CIB runs across 130 services after eight years without tokens, a named product team, or rebranding, surviving three tool migrations and four governance rewrites. The team spends three months fixing contrast with adaptive colours so traders can actually read prices, finds ~80% of patterns reusable across products, and treats business workflows as components — pragmatic changes that scale and keep the system working.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:33Checklists
- 1:57What my company does
- 2:59We are unique
- 4:09Adopt for adoption
- 6:24Reusable
- 7:16Adoption
- 9:55Design Systems
- 11:05Accessibility
- 13:22Embedding Goals
- 15:42Flight Check
- 17:51FYI Checks
- 22:21Design Mission
- 23:06Changing Along the Way
- 24:42Design System Governance
- 28:55Conclusion
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