Hear hear Murphy, couldn't agree more. I love the concept of design systems as coded infrastructure, its actually so glaringly obvious yet so many design system leads don't see it this way and end up policing their teams. Component detachment is a critical failure which needs to be logged, flagged and processed to ensure the system remains healthy, useful and the source of truth. Same goes for detecting hard-coded values where relevant tokens exist. Thanks for your perspective and insights on this ❤️
Hear hear Murphy, couldn't agree more. I love the concept of design systems as coded infrastructure, its actually so glaringly obvious yet so many design system leads don't see it this way and end up policing their teams. Component detachment is a critical failure which needs to be logged, flagged and processed to ensure the system remains healthy, useful and the source of truth. Same goes for detecting hard-coded values where relevant tokens exist. Thanks for your perspective and insights on this ❤️
Thanks Lars – the infrastructure framing really does change everything. I appreciate you reading and restacking the article.