Design Systems Not for “Design”
summary
SmartHR treats its design system as engineering glue: a public website and public GitHub repo, a React component library called SmartHR UI, and a Figma library that mirrors component property updates. It grew from small concrete patterns since the 2015 product launch and public rollout in June 2020, and is maintained by a nine-person product design group. Teams add guidelines, accessibility checklists and writing rules via mob design, templates, GitHub PRs and Figma branches to reduce conditional logic and speed initial releases.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:33SmartHR design system
- 4:18Purpose of design systems
- 6:46Origins and challenges
- 8:58Incremental building
- 11:05Developer benefits
- 16:48Scaling strategies
- 20:57How to start
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