Building a Design System is easy, maintaining and making it grow organically is much more difficult. This requires planning and collaboration, or does it? Can't we just cut out the collaboration part and make things more efficient? What does all this have in common with The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning? Join me on a story about planning, categorising and sorting and about handling human beings and their peculiarities. Maybe your Design System will end up on The Design Systems Graveyard.
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The Design Systems Graveyard
Maintaining a Design System requires careful planning and collaboration. Explore the balance between efficiency and human factors in design.
Kristoffer Nordström
Kristoffer has a big heart ❤️ for humanity & inclusion. Previous Head of Front End at the Norwegian Red Cross and currently working as a Consultant at Variant building education systems of the future for Sikt. He has been working with web GUIs since the 1990s GeoCities era, a "Nordic citizen" from Sweden 🇸🇪 with roots on the Åland Islands 🇦🇽 and in Finland 🇫🇮 now living in Oslo Norway 🇳🇴.