Design Systems: The Unsung Heroes of Product Teams
How a Shared Design Language Can Boost Productivity, Reduce Stress, and Improve Collaboration
I’ve recently found this comment on LinkedIn and at first, being a developer myself, I've found it a bit offensive.
At first I reacted in an impulsive way.
But after spending sometime thinking about how everyone in a team, from Product Managers, Engineers and Digital Product Designers can improve how they communicate and work together I'm suggesting two words to address this problem:
Design Systems
And here is why I think a design system will make everybody in a product team happier:
1. A shared design system between Product Managers, Engineers and Digital Product Designers, if successful, will speed up time to market
2. Imposing restrictions to the Design Space minimizes the introduction of unwanted design variations and special cases ...
2.1 ... which in turn reduces the necessary lines of code to implement the product
2.1.1 Minimising Technical Debt
2.1.2 Increasing Product Development speed
2.1.3 Making possible to explore alternative design solutions in the same time span
3. Superior quality and consistency of the user experience
4. Developer turnover will be a thing of the past
So let’s all get along and leverage the power of a Design System to make our lives happier and less stress prone!