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Re:Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower by kabes on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:13AM (#39508707)
They could do that just fine if they picked an existing UI library on a company level. There's no need to invent their own.

Never in the history of software has one lost a sale due to how the buttons of their product look like.

And I guarantee you that their internal library will be worse than popular options out there. The amount of time I've been in meetings where 10 smart, well-paid people from 10 different products in a company are endlessly discussing paddings on an input field... It's just a complete waste of time.

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Re:Ship Faster by Building Design Systems Slower by onion2k on Monday February 26, 2024 @03:54AM (#39508980)
Every company I know that has a design system the developers actually use based their first version on an open source library. Companies do exactly what you're suggesting. Their design system is usually little more than a config file for the library they've based it on, with some custom components for the bits that don't come by default.
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