\u201cDesign systems choose consistency and convenience over creativity and craft. When you overvalue consistency in the pursuit of uniformity, you create too many unnecessary rules that straitjackets creative thinking before it can even get going\u2026 you kill the holistic working process necessary to develop a designer\u2019s craft.<\/p>\n
Design systems are well meaning, and no one can fault their ambition. But by dismembering the design process with prescriptive step-by-step rules, it restricts a designer\u2019s freedom to work creatively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n
Not only does this hinder good solutions from being born, I also don\u2019t know of a single talented product designer who would find this type of \u2018constraint\u2019 inspiring or life-giving. Designers want to design. We want to explore and try new things and solve difficult problems and a design system should never stand in the way of creative thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Balance is the Key<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The challenge for design teams is to find the balance between consistency and flexibility when creating and using a design system. It\u2019s certainly necessary and fruitful to establish and organize design patterns and components but be cautious about outlawing the creative process in favor of the system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Designers need the space to dream, play, explore, feel and craft new ideas and solutions. The design system should serve as a launching pad for this creative process, never a prison cell. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What is a design system and how could it possibly be dangerous? Let’s start with a definition: \u201cA Design System is the single source of truth which groups all the elements that will allow the teams to design, realize and develop a product.\u201d ~ Everything you need to know about Design Systems A design system […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,56,54,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3117"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3128,"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3117\/revisions\/3128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanalsobrooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}