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Design systems for teams that aren't Google
You don't need a hundred components. You need tokens, six patterns and documented rules.
2 April 2026 · 5 min read
Small teams often abandon design systems because they try to build an enterprise-scale library before shipping anything.
Start with tokens: colour, type scale, spacing, radius and shadow. Tokens alone eliminate most inconsistency, because they remove the need to make arbitrary choices.
Then document the six or seven patterns you actually repeat — buttons, form fields, cards, navigation, sections and modals. Everything else can stay bespoke until it repeats three times.
Keep documentation next to the code. A system that lives in a separate tool nobody opens will drift within a month.
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