Building a design system: A one-year retrospective

Derek Boman
Bootcamp
Published in
13 min readFeb 2, 2021

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In this conversation, I sit down with my coworker Brian Clay to reminisce and reflect on the first year of building our company’s design system, which we call Kyper. Check it out here as a Figma Community download.

Brian is a super talented designer. I brought him onto my team a year and a half ago to own and reboot our design system. We talk about how it’s gone and advice we would give to anybody just embarking on a company’s design system journey.

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Product Design Leader // Runner, reader, husband, father // Based in SLC, UT