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Building a design system team

Building a design system team - Sketch Tutorial

From the course: Managing a Design System with Sketch

Building a design system team

- [Instructor] A style guide can provide documentation and serve as a helpful resource, but the simple existence of a style guide doesn't guarantee long term success for the underlying design system. A design system needs ongoing maintenance, support and tender loving care for it to truly thrive. Organizational design greatly influences product design. If the relationship between the people who make a product is broken, the product will be broken too. As your company grows, everybody has to work harder and smarter at communicating. Nathan Curtis goes over three ways today's companies organize their teams for design systems, Solitary, Centralized and Federated. I'm going to talk through these three and how they can work for your organization. The first model I want to talk about is the Solitary model. A Solitary model sees one team make a system available, but with efforts focused primarily on those team's needs. So it's…

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