Examples of design systems that worked?

Product manager here. I've been at 6 different companies that implemented design systems. Each promised a unified visual experience with cost efficiencies for engineering, and every one failed spectacularly. The types of failure differed by company: at one place updates to components would consistently break things. At another it took too long to get new components made so teams ignored the system. At a third it also took too long to get new components made...so teams settled for degraded UX. A fourth got everything in place and stable but when the designs got stale after a few years no one was willing to pay the cost for a whole new system of components. I have now grown very cynical about design systems. But I want to be wrong! Please share stories where design systems worked, not just at the initial launch but for the long term. submitted by /u/Ok-Maintenance-6744 [link] [comments]

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