Implementing your teeny-tiny team’s design system
You have buy-in from stakeholders. You’re building your design system. How do you get your teams to adopt the system?
4 min readJul 4, 2024
If no one adopts a system, what good is it? Implementation is perhaps the most challenging part of the process, as it requires a lot of communication, planning, announcements, and repetition.
Hearing feedback and responding to it is vital to continued adoption. The design system is a tool you’re building for your designers and developers, and it ultimately needs to solve their needs.
In this series
- Does your teeny-tiny team need a design system?
- The elements of design systems for teeny-tiny teams
- Building your teeny-tiny team’s design system
- Implementing your teeny-tiny team’s design system (You are here)
Get feedback while building
As often as possible, get components into the hands of your designers and developers. Getting feedback early can help shape the scope and effectiveness of the whole initiative. It would be very challenging to change the basic structure of your system after it’s created. It will be extremely difficult to walk…
