Governance & rollout

Lessons in this group, roughly in build order:

  • governance — Governance is the operating model of a design system: who decides what goes in, how changes are proposed…
  • milestones — Milestones are the sequenced, measurable checkpoints a design system ships against — the roadmap that…
  • pilot — A pilot is the first real adoption of a design system by one carefully chosen product team — a controlled…
  • communication-channel — A communication channel is the always-on, asynchronous place — typically a Slack/Teams channel — where…
  • community-meetings — A community meeting is the recurring, scheduled gathering of a design system’s contributors and consumers…
  • open-hours — Open hours are a recurring drop-in support window where the design system team is live and available — no…