Redesigning components for an existing design system

What to do when a component is no longer aligned and causes downstream usability issues

Michelle Chiu
The Startup
Published in
8 min readFeb 5, 2020

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Illustration by Manuel Rovira

As a designer, have you ever come across an outdated component in your design system that was no longer serving the needs of your team? Dusty from the years since its conception, it fails to provide its original value as it has…

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Michelle Chiu
The Startup

Product designer (220K+ views). Prev Coinbase, Meta Creative X and MongoDB. Tweets at www.twitter.com/michelle__chiu.